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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour

Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …

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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia

Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem … to be about as negatively affected as Roma across the four states, which indicate that vulnerability inflicted by …

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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...

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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...

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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission mechanism of...

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