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the birth and growth of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, review the academic literature that has focused on …
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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …
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lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half of the subjects face the risk to lose a large proportion of their …
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the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … economies in South Asia, the income inequality tends to fall …
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growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …
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This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to easier divorce that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a...
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