We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with … service" employees is particularly important), cooperatives are found to outperform conventional stores. To investigate …

review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the …

Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …

alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

-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 …

mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …