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relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …
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the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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the birth and growth of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, review the academic literature that has focused on …
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lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half of the subjects face the risk to lose a large proportion of their …
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Cambodia's rapid economic growth in the past few decades has coincided with trade liberalization and structural …) are positively related with trade flows, and that Cambodia's specific gains from these increases in trade have been larger … than for the average trade agreement. This has led to better results for workers in Cambodia's local labor markets. Our …
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We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
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Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...
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There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare systems. This paper shows that real and financial assets...
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