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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315723
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987397
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Autor, David H. - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233
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Determinants of Financial Inclusion of Urban Poor in India : An Empirical Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2016
Financial inclusion is crucial for the inclusive and sustainable economic growth of developing countries. Access to financial services to all citizens, particularly to low income and poor people is a key to promote inclusive growth. While rural financial inclusion assumes importance from policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979589
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Payment Choice in International Trade : Theory and Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data
Hoefele, Andreas - 2013
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077465
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Improving the Availability of Trade Finance in Developing Countries : An Assessment of Remaining Gaps
Auboin, Marc - 2016
While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might have been worsened during and after the global financial crisis. In fact, there is a consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996201
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Payment Choice in International Trade: Theory and Evidence from Cross-country Firm Level Data
Hoefele, Andreas; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Yu, Zhihong - CESifo - 2013
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877930
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2013
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682628