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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 …

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Imports as product and labor market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé (contributor); … - 2006

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector

Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...

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Productivity and trade orientation in UK manufacturing

Rizov, Marian (contributor); Walsh, Patrick Paul (contributor) - 2007

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following Ackerberg et al. (2005) we adjust the algorithm in Olley...

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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Women workers in essential British metal and chemical industries during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023

Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...

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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...

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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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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008

Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...

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