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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing, and Would It Be Efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534362
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698716
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International trade integration: a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2009
trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264596
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Concentration and Competition: Evidence from Europe and Implications for Policy
Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022
concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards oligopolistic structure. Estimates of aggregate profitability also show a … competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266605
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Working from Home in European Countries before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022
countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic … started. We show that there are significant differences in working from home across countries, industries, and occupations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427718
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Merchants of Doubt: Corporate Political Influence when Expert Credibility is Uncertain
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Lyon, Thomas P. - 2016
A key role of science-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to communicate scientific knowledge to … of such NGOs and weaken their ability to influence policy. To investigate the mechanisms by which a firm can profitably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584864
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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2018
-country differences in environmental and labor regulation (and enforcement) in ways that have led to a large number of NGO campaigns and … introduce North-South differences in regulation, a cost-saving ‘unethical’ technology and consumer boycotts into a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815815
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Local Global Watchdogs: Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
obtained from recently available data containing 102 532 campaigns by 4 343 NGOs targeting 11 429 firms from 145 countries … guide our theoretical analysis. We propose a model of global sourcing and international trade in which heterogeneous NGOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582131
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2014
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
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