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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472482
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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...
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403576
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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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Immigration policy in integrated national economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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