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A popular form of action to curb child labor and uphold international labor standards in general is a `product boycott' by consumers. There are labeling agencies that inform us if, for instance, a carpet or a hand-stitched soccer ball is free of child labor. The presence of a consumer boycott...
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Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which...
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Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight …, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation … understanding of economic theory. This paper tries to bring together the formal analytics that underlie inflation policy. It surveys …
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Standard errors (S.Es.) of month on month and year on year inflation in Pakistan are estimated based on data for the … mechanism is developed to estimate S.E. of period average headline inflation using these approaches. This mechanism is then … applied to estimate S.Es. of 12-month average inflation in Pakistan for July 2003 to June 2010. The systematic changes in the …
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This study estimates degree of intrinsic inflation persistence in Pakistan using aggregate price index, group level …
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