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Export price shocks and rural labor markets : the role of labor market distortions
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - In: Journal of development economics 145 (2020)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237337
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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016
differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480812
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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016
differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482929
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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230166
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks are Non-Insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129923
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434518
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014 - Version - November 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438314
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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278422
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Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269698