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Menstrual health, worker productivity and well-being among female Bangladeshi garment workers
Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2019
We conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on a sample of 1,000 female garment workers in three factories in Bangladesh, off ering access to free sanitary pads at work to 500 of the workers. We cross-randomised participation in information sessions for hygienic menstrual health care...
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P.; Almeida, Rita - 2018
workforce and fully benefiting from technology adoption. We show that digital technology adoption shifted the demand for skills …
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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the … universal basic skills amounts to over $ 700 trillion over the remaining century, or 11% of discounted GDP. …
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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
The aim of this paper is to assess whether the impacts of real exchange rate undervaluation and domestic technological capabilities on growth are stable across development levels. On the one hand, a real exchange undervaluation measure is constructed based on the purchasing-power-parity theory...
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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from...
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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South
Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
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A note on automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax
Gasteiger, Emanuel; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show that it does not have the potential to lead to positive...
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