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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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thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer … effect also when we take into account the impact of cultural diversity. As expected proficiency in Norwegian of foreign …
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Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4,000 languages which together account for more than...
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This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …
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This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
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This study examines the causal effects of Dutch language proficiency of immigrants from four main source countries on … for endogeneity, effects of Dutch language proficiency on social and economic integration of immigrants are more than … their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to …
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