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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016389
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market : How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y. - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059687
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The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change : Evidence from China
Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023
How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by Chinese exporters in the U.S. This reduction is characterized by … variation across Chinese prefectures before and after 2001. We find that prefectures facing the average decline in trade policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal
Masaki, Takaaki - 2020
Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade. This paper examines the relationship between access to broadband internet and household welfare between 2011 and 2018 by integrating the latest two rounds of household budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823859
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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910737
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Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
Ge, Ying - 2019
for productivity and use trade costs as the instruments. We further investigate the mechanism of how importing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870213
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On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship : Evidence from the Dominican Republic
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2017
In 2010, an amendment to the Dominican constitution weakened the concept of jus soli citizenship by denying Dominican nationality to individuals born on Dominican soil to irregular immigrants. A few years later, in 2013, the Dominican High Court denationalized large numbers of individuals by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960290
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The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply Over the Last Two Centuries
Aaronson, Daniel - 2017
This paper documents the evolving impact of childbearing on the work activity of mothers between 1787 and 2014. It is based on a compiled data set of 429 censuses and surveys, representing 101 countries and 46.9 million mothers, using the International and U.S. IPUMS, the North Atlantic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962284
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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet : Evidence from Nigeria
Bahia, Kalvin - 2020
largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834577