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Trade-offs? : the impact of WTO accession on intimate partner violence in Cambodia

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner...

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Exports and jobs for inclusive growth in Cambodia

Kokas, Deeksha; Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; López … - 2024

Cambodia's rapid economic growth in the past few decades has coincided with trade liberalization and structural transformation. This growth has been extensively associated with more employment, higher wages, shared prosperity, and poverty reduction. By combining two complementary approaches, the...

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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...

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Pioneering a new approach to improving working conditions in developing countries : Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...

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Insurance and solidarity : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cambodia

Lenel, Friederike; Steiner, Susan - 2017

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half...

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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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Gender norms and female labor supply : evidence from export shocks in Vietnam

Quynh Huynh; Ku, Hyejin - 2025

impact of gender norms. Analyzing quasi-random variation in provincial exports in reunified Vietnam from 2002 to 2018, we …

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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do Minh; Cuong Viet … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

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Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents : evidence from Vietnam

Trong Ha Nguyen; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Booth, Alison L. - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...

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The impact of artificial intelligence on labor markets in developing countries: a new method with an illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam

Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021

AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...

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