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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016
's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480812
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A tacit monetary policy of the Gulf countries : is there a remittances channel?
Termos, Ali; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2015
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency for oil. This paper examines how these dynamics result in a misalignment of the U.S. monetary...
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Health, retirement and economic shocks
Martinez-Jimenez, Mario; Hollingsworth, Bruce; … - 2021
We explore the effects of retirement on both physical and mental ill-health and whether these change in the presence of economic shocks. We employ inverse probability weighting regression adjustment to examine the mechanisms influencing the relationship between retirement and health and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593024
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Business education and portfolio returns
Altmejd, Adam; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2024
Using university admission cutoffs that generate exogenous variation in college-major choices, we provide causal evidence that enrollment in a business or economics program leads individuals to invest significantly more in the stock market, earn higher portfolio returns, and ultimately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529731
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A comparison of panel data models in estimating technical efficiency
Rashidghalam, Masoomeh; Heshmati, Almas; Dashti, Ghader; … - 2016
efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton … producing provinces. The results indicate that labor and seeds are determinants of cotton production and inorganic fertilizers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454436
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525
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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716529
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716533
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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716537