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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers.The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020

.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Suedekum, Jens - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Avdic, Daniel - 2018

Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...

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Minimum Global Tax : Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions

Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2023

This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...

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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...

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The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness

Ermisch, John - 2011

We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular...

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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment : A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms

Salvatori, Andrea - 2011

This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...

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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Chib, Siddhartha - 2011

In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...

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Above and Beyond the Call : Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years

Grenet, Julien - 2011

We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...

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