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The labor market power of exporting firms : evidence from Latin America

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Roux, Nicolás de; … - 2024

Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...

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The impact of global labour standards on export performance

Bandyopadhyay, Kuntala - 2016

The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the agenda of future trade talks as North-South trade flows continue to increase. Labour interests in high-standards...

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India's GVC integration : an analysis of upgrading efforts and facilitation of lead firms

Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2020

India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs is...

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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020

This paper estimates conditional demand models and, using a joint approach for the period 2008-2017, examines the impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in four different types of occupational groups:...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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Trade liberalization, collective bargaining and workers : wages and working conditions

Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2022

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The effect of violence on birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in rural Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2013

This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics natality and mortality data between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide...

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Labour regulations in India : rationalising the laws governing wages

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017

In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions in the relevant ILO Conventions and look at the laws and practice in selected developed and emerging...

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Labour regulations in India : improving the social security framework

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017

An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...

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Totalisation/portability of social security benefits : imperatives for global action

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2019

The relative importance of migrant workers has been increasing in the world economy. Conscious of their growing numbers, the migrant-receiving and migrant sending countries have agreed to grant social security benefits to migrant workers and their families. To this end they have ratified or...

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