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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408832
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296545
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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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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories
Lake, Henrietta (contributor) - 2007
resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …
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The effects of intrauterine malnutrition on birth and fertility outcomes : evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - 2013
This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … Bangladesh famine were 32 percent more likely to die within one month of birth compared to their siblings who were not in utero …
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The impact of micro-credit on employment : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …
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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581671
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The effects of access to credit on productivity : separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019
. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …
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