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Conflict, Economic Shock and Child Labour in Palestine
No full textThis paper studies the impact of Palestine-Israel conflict on child labour in Palestine. The conflict has resulted in massive job loss of Palestinian workers in Israel. We estimate the probability that a Palestinian child starts working when the household suffer economic shock due to the intensity of conflict. The paper uses longitudinal employment survey from the Palestinian Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the period 1999 to 2006 to analyse the impact of household economic shocks on the employment transition of children
(10-16 years) in Palestine. The particular economic shock we consider in this paper is the job loss of Palestinian workers in Israel. Taking advantage of the rotating panel structure of the
LFS, we compare households in which the head looses his job in Israel during 2 consecutive
quarters with households in which the head is continuously employed in Israel. Probit regressions indicate that household head’s job loss in Israel significantly increases the
probability of child labour. The effect can be as large as 64% on the probability of working for 16 years old boys. In contrast, household head’s job loss after a year does not have a significant effect, suggesting that the result is not due to unobservable characteristics of households that suffer the economic shock. The results suggest that economic shock for even relatively well-off households can have adverse consequence for children and highlight the importance of the Palestine-Israel conflict as an explanation of child labour dynamics in Palestine
L’anomalia del modello di specializzazione italiano e l’evoluzione del commercio internazionale: una analisi quantitativa
No full textThe Italian Anomaly in the Evolution of International Trade - This study offers a quantitative assessment of the international specialization of Italy in view of the evolving patterns of international trade over the period 1980- 2000. The analysis is based upon the co-evolution of the PRODY index, recently proposed in Hausmann et al. (2005), together with the classical Balassa index of revealed comparative advantage. Our findings suggest that Italian specialization is persistent and increasing in sectors characterized by decreasing capacity to sustain economic growth
Has the Chilean Neo-Liberal Experiment Run Out of Fuel? A View on Technological Gaps, De-Industrialisation and Catching-Up
No full textUncertainty, Optimal Specialization and Growth
No full textWe use a one-factor two-sector model of comparative advantage with uncertainty to compare the effects of different specialization levels on growth under various scenarios. We derive the static and dynamic optimal level of specialization under the centralized and the decentralized economy. We identify the conditions under which the socially optimal specialization level entails positive investment in the comparatively disadvantaged sector. We show that in this case the socially optimal solution cannot be reached by the decentralized economy which is in fact characterized by over-specialization. We conclude presenting a simple tax-based redistributive mechanism able to achieve the optimal level of specialization in a decentralized economic system
The evolution of world export sophistication and the italian trade anomaly
No full textThis work provides an empirical assessment of the sophistication level of the Italian international specialization pattern from 1980 to recent years. In particular we present an original analysis which explores the intertemporal co-evolution of the newly proposed PRODY index of export sophistication (Hausmann et al. 2005, 2007) with standard measures of revealed compar- ative advantage. We argue that the results of this exercise can shed light on the Italian ’trade specialization anomaly
Technological Gaps, De-Industrialization and Catching-Up: Is the Chilean Case a Paradox?
No full textConsumer Boycott, Household Heterogeneity and Child Labour
No full textConsumer boycott campaigns against goods produced using child labour are becoming increasingly popular. Notwithstanding, there is no consensus on which are the eects of such type of activism on child labour. If some agreement is to be found in the recent economic literature, it is that the boycott does not reduce child labour. We contribute to this debate presenting a simple model which shows, instead, that there are conditions under which a consumer product boycott does reduce child labour. We consider a small country two-factor economy populated by heterogeneous households. The boycott aects both the adult and the child labour markets. The income distribution determines how these changes aect child labour at the household level. We derive the conditions under which the consumer boycott reduces child labour also for some of the households whose' income is - before the boycott - under the subsistence level
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