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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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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940

Bértola, Luis; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … on net weak early industrialization. Finally, the paper documents that inequality rose in most of Latin America up to …

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Trade and Industrialisation after Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building and Joining a Supply Chain are Different and Why it Matters

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2013

Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...

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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada During the First Era of Globalization

Jaworski, Taylor; Keay, Ian - 2022

controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade …

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Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California'S Enterprise Zone Program

Neumark, David; Kolko, Jed - 2021

We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods to improve upon evaluations of the effectiveness of state enterprise zones, focusing on California's program. Because zone boundaries do not follow census tracts or zip codes, we created digitized maps of original zone boundaries...

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Zoning and the Political Economy of Local Redistribution

Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard Donald - 2021

This paper examines the effects of a zoning regulation on local redistribution in a multicommunity model. Each community chooses, by majority vote within the community, a property tax rate. The proceeds from this tax are then redistributed within the community on a per capita basis. Individuals...

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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Kolko, Jed - 2014

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning

Shertzer, Allison - 2014

Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...

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Place-Based Policies

Neumark, David - 2014

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...

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What Do We Know About Enterprise Zones?

Papke, Leslie E. - 2021

In the last decade, most states have targeted certain depressed areas for revitalization by providing a combination of labor and capital tax incentives to firms operating in an "enterprise zone" (EZ). A partial equilibrium model is used to analyze the theoretical effects of various EZ incentives...

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