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Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021

This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...

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The tragedy of corruption

Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the … over time. Reducing the size of the groups while increasing the probability of collective sanction diminishes the officials …

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Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? : microeconomic evidence

Andrews, Martyn J.; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2015

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large...

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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour

Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...

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International labor standards and the political economy of child labor regulation

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); … - 2008

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...

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Employer sanctions: a policy with a pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...

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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second sanction of the same type within one year implies a complete benefit … unobservables into account. Our results suggest that both the first and the second sanction increase the probability of finding a … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …

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Who is to suffer? : quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms

Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Mösle, Saskia - 2023

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's...

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Economic sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. Employing a difference-in-differences approach, we compare the probability of being employed in the...

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International sanctions and labor emigration : a case study of Iran

Zareei, Afsaneh; Falahi, Mohammad Ali; Wadensjö, Eskil; … - 2024

Sanctions have severe adverse effects on societies. Even though sanctions are used against governments, the population is punished for its government's behavior. Sanctions can create problems due to international migration. Iran is an unique case study because it faced the most and hardest...

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