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The World is not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!

Behrens, Kristian - 2016

The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of...

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Freight Transport for Development Toolkit : Ports and Waterborne Freight

Kruk, C. Bert - 2009

million tons in 2007, of world freight is transported by sea. Most, if not all, freight transport moves from the producer to … provides data on world maritime transport and explains the different types of cargo that pass which are carried by the world … overview of the world port in terms of numbers and classifies the largest ports in the world in terms of total cargoes …

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Road Freight in Central America : Five Explanations to High Costs of Service Provision

World Bank - 2012

economies around the world. In the past 20 years, the industry has advanced as technology has improved communication, management …

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The Week

Eden, Maya - 2016

Is a five-day workweek followed by a two-day weekend a socially optimal schedule? This paper presents a model in which labor productivity and the marginal utility of leisure evolve endogenously over the workweek. Labor productivity is shaped by two forces: restfulness, which decreases over the...

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Gender differences in time use : allocating time between the market and the household

Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time...

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Export Quality in Advanced and Developing Economies : Evidence from a New Data Set

Henn, Christian - 2017

growth rate of quality. Within any given product line, quality converges over time to the world frontier. Institutional …

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Optimal Targeting under Budget Constraints in a Humanitarian Context

Gigliarano, Chiara - 2017

food voucher program for refugees. The estimations focus on the 2014 food vouchers administered by the World Food Programme …

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains : Theory, Evidence, and Open Questions

Ruta, Michele - 2017

Preferential trade agreements today are more numerous and deeper than they were a quarter century ago. Do deep agreements promote countries' integration into global value chains? What are the economic mechanisms? How do countries choose their trade agreement partners? Would the undoing of deep...

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A BIT Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets

Gomez Mera, Laura - 2017

How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...

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Longevity and Lifetime Education : Global Evidence from 919 Surveys

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul - 2017

Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects...

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