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relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …
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the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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the birth and growth of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, review the academic literature that has focused on …
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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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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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Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal...
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This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …
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We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …
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This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were collected from "field reports" on PunterNet.com website over the 1999-2009 time period. We find a...
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