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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China

Li, Yanan - 2018

The theory of fiscal and regulatory competition between jurisdictions is more advanced than its empirical testing. This … enforcing minimum wage standards during 2004-2012 in China. We manually collect a panel data set of city-level minimum wage … standards from China's government websites. This analysis finds strong evidence of spatial interdependence in minimum wage …

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate : Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - 2014

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impacts on productivity as measured...

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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet : Evidence from Nigeria

Bahia, Kalvin - 2020

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...

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Adopting Mobile Money : Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Batista, Catia - 2020

Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...

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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021

Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...

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Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Cruz, Genaro; Masaki, Takaaki - 2022

What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using...

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Productivity, Wages and Profits : Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2019

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...

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Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains : Evidence from Better Work Jordan

Robertson, Raymond - 2019

This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...

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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services : Evidence from the State of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan - 2017

In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...

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