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Spillover effects of international standards: Work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises

Trifković, Neda - 2015

improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …

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Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects

Pretorius, Anmar; Bezuidenhout, Carli; Matthee, Marianne; … - 2019

). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of …

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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...

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Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters

Matthee, Marianne; Rankin, Neil; Bezuidenhout, Carli - 2017

This paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa … and pay higher wages. Given these higher wages we investigate how this wage premium is distributed within the exporting … firm. There appears to be a wide dispersion of wages within exporters (particularly international/non-African exporters …

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The development implications of external integration in Latin America

Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012

This paper analyses the links between the integration into the international economy and development in Latin America over the past quarter century. It argues that external liberalization led to faster export growth but not to faster GDP or productivity growth. Growth also became more volatile,...

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The effect of foreign competition on family and network labour allocation

Klymak, Margaryta - 2019

This paper examines whether foreign competition affects the reallocation of unpaid and family workers from household businesses to working outside of the family firm. Using a rich panel dataset of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises that went through trade liberalization, I find that import...

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Income and malaria: Evidence from an agricultural intervention in Uganda

Pan, Yao; Singhal, Saurabh - 2015

We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of an agricultural extension program in Uganda to causally identify …

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Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda

Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge - 2021

The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda …

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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022

projects in Uganda in conjunction with six waves of nationally representative household-level panel survey data to examine the …

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The dynamics of formal employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda

McNabb, Kyle; Barugahara, Tina Kaidu; Kavuma, Susan … - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal sector employment in Uganda. Utilizing employee …-level administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority, we describe the dynamics of employment as the pandemic evolved, seeking to …

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