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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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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...

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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

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories

Lake, Henrietta (contributor) - 2007

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007

"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …

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