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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing
Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...
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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry
Katz, Lawrence F. - 1992
Using data from a longitudinal survey of fast food restaurants in Texas, the authors examine the impact of recent changes in the federal minimum wage on a low-wage labor market The authors draw four main conclusions. First, the survey results indicate that less than 5 percent of fast food...
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How Do Firms Build Market Share?
Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2018
The question of how firms build market share matters for firm dynamics, business cycles, international trade, and industrial organization. Using Nielsen Retail Scanner data for the United States, we document that in the consumer food industry, brands experience substantial growth in market share...
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Privatizing social security
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000645265
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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2005
"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522578
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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...
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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
Mexico …
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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000
Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …
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Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging : Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s
Cutler, David M. - 2000
We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …
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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina
Goldberg, Linda - 2000
studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with … with high levels of impaired assets (Mexico) have more stagnant loan growth and weak responsiveness to market signals …
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