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Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...
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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016
relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497239
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Trade-offs? : the impact of WTO accession on intimate partner violence in Cambodia
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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Pioneering a new approach to improving working conditions in developing countries : Better Factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
the birth and growth of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, review the academic literature that has focused on …
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Insurance and solidarity : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cambodia
Lenel, Friederike; Steiner, Susan - 2017
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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Exports and jobs for inclusive growth in Cambodia
Kokas, Deeksha; Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; López … - 2024
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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The short- and long-term career effects of graduating in a recession : hysteresis and heterogeneity in the market for college graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...
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Growing up in a recession : beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
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