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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization â … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

This paper presents an impact evaluation of the French enterprise zone program which was initiated in 1997 to help unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally....

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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the … either changing minimum wage levels (that are not binding for apparel in Bangladesh) or other changes through time, and are …

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Missing from the Market : Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2017

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...

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