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Manufacturing growth and the lives of Bangladeshi women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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Mending the gap : apparel export prices and the gender wage gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022
study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the … either changing minimum wage levels (that are not binding for apparel in Bangladesh) or other changes through time, and are …
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum …
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Employment booms and infant health : evidence from the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh
Vasishth, Mahima - 2024
the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This industry was exposed to a trade liberalization policy in 2005, which …
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The impact of artificial intelligence on labor markets in developing countries: a new method with an illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...
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Short and long-run labor market effects of developing country exports : evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …. Unlike in other studies, these local labor market effects dissipate quickly. Furthermore, Bangladesh's export shock was …
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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016
People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...
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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms
Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017
Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...
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