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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers.The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Parental Job Loss and Infant Health

Lindo, Jason M. - 2010

Although there exists a large literature documenting various consequences of job loss, this paper is the first to explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the first to consider whether there are any harmful effects...

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Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Churchill, Brandyn; Song, Yang - 2021

The past two decades have been characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and heightened stress due to fears of family separation and loss of income among undocumented immigrants. Using vital statistics on infant births from the National Center of Health...

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Japan and Her Dealings with Offshoring : An Empirical Analysis with Aggregate Data

Agnese, Pablo - 2011

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at...

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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy : The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando - 2010

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...

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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less studied feature of corruption, namely bribe...

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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for goods and services. This paper makes three contributions...

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Marczak, Martyna - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...

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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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