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Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning : Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Brown, Drusilla K. - 2016

Working conditions in developing countries, such as those associated with the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, remain stubbornly low despite strict laws regulating hours, pay practices and occupational safety and health. Recent theoretic and empirical work suggests that norms and learning...

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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries : Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...

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Sweatshop Equilibrium

Chau, Nancy H. - 2009

This paper presents a capability-augmented model of on the job search, in which sweatshop conditions stifle the capability of the working poor to search for a job while on the job. The augmented setting unveils a sweatshop equilibrium in an otherwise archetypal Burdett-Mortensen economy, and...

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Bockerman, Petri - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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Working Conditions and Factory Survival : Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2016

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...

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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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Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size

Tansel, Aysıt - 2022

Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...

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Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2020

We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by the formal sector to the lower wage informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in...

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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region

Fakih, Ali - 2013

probability of exporting and the export intensity of these firms. The empirical specification is represented through a country … foreign ownership, information and communication technology, and firm size on the probability of exporting and on export … production workers and in terms of non-production workers tend to exert negative effects on firms' propensity to export. The …

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