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This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Disasters in Bangladesh and protests elsewhere have created an intense debate about the value, particularly to women …, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the … traditional trade theory (e.g., the Heckscher-Ohlin and Stolper-Samuelson theorems) to analyze the effect of globalization on …
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Disasters in Bangladesh and protests elsewhere have created an intense debate about the value, particularly to women …, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the … traditional trade theory (e.g., the Heckscher-Ohlin and Stolper-Samuelson theorems) to analyze the effect of globalization on …
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Since the 1970s, industrial production has been outsourced from developed countries to parts of the developing world where labor was found to be significantly cheaper and more ‘flexible'. This phenomenon was accompanied by a rise in the female intensiveness of the workforce, in a process...
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