women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri … premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women …

employment of the poor. This paper provides a statistical verification of this contribution based on firm-level data from 164 … sampled companies collected in 2003. Its main conclusions confirm the substantial impact that employment in the garment … industry has had on poverty reduction in Cambodia. Firstly, entry-level workers receive wages far above the poverty line …

This paper examines the impact of foreign capital inflows on employment, wages and skills, in the export …-oriented garment manufacturing sector of Myanmar. The paper argues that global developments driven by the World Trade Organisation have … stimulated foreign capital inflows into Myanmar in export-oriented labour-intensive industries such as garment manufacturing …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the … agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a theoretical attempt to identify the impact on agricultural employment and … social security norm including higher minimum wage not only decreases the overall employment generation in the agricultural …

employees’ wages accounted for 42% of the gross domestic product, and the gross operating surplus for 47.2% of the GDP. In 2011 …, the share of the employees’ wages dropped to 40.6%, and the surplus rose to 50.8%. In other words, the crisis took its … employment. There has also been a decline in the number of employed people and in the average number of hours worked per week …

women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri … premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women …

paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on …, but we fail to find significant effects on employment. (JEL F23, J31, J81, L67, O14, O15) …