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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries : Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond - 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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Working Conditions and Factory Survival : Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 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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Insurance and Solidarity : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Cambodia

Lenel, Friederike - 2017

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half...

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Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2022

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner...

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Childcare and Maternal Employment : Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues with a …

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The Effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction Program on Schooling

Bertoni, Marco - 2019

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school …

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Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment : A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2020

This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International … a centralized education system. We first document 'Vietnam advantage' in a wide-range of supply and demand …'t explain away Vietnam's positive deviance in PISA when compared to other participating developing and developed countries. We …

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The Beneficial Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution : Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic's impacts on improving air quality in Vietnam …

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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery : A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey immediately after the removal of lockdown measures in Vietnam, a …

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