Calendrier du 02 juin 2021
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 02/06/2021 de 17:30 à 18:30
CORTES Patricia (Boston University)
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
écrit avec joint with Semiray Kasoolu and Carolina Pan
In the last decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote the participation of natives in the private sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected the outcomes of exporting firms. We find that whereas the policy was successful in increasing the employment of Saudi Nationals by these firms, it came at a high cost. In the year following the implementation of the policy, relative to firms above the quota, exporting firms below the quota reduced their labor force by 10 percent, were 8 percent less likely to export, and conditional on exporting, their exports fell by 27 percent. We also find that to comply with the policy, firms hired mostly lower wage, low skilled Saudis. The policy doubled the share of women in treated firms.
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 02/06/2021 de 17:00 à 18:30
LABARDIN Pierre(Univ. Paris Dauphine - PSL)
FABRE ANTOINE (Univ. Paris Dauphine - PSL)
La production et l’usage du prix de revient des entreprises coloniales françaises : Le cas du caoutchouc en A.E.F (1899-1945)
Development Economics Seminar
Du 02/06/2021 de 16:30 à 18:00
Via Zoom
CALVI Rosella (Rice University)
Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families
écrit avec with Ajinkya Keskar
We develop a non-cooperative bargaining model with incomplete information linking dowry payments, domestic violence, resource allocation between a husband and a wife, and separation. Our model generates several predictions, which we test empirically using amendments to the Indian anti-dowry law as a natural experiment. We document a decline in women’s decision-making power and separations, and a surge in domestic violence following the amendments. These unintended effects are attenuated when social stigma against separation is low and, in some circumstances, when gains from marriage are high. Whenever possible, parents increase investment in their daughters’ human capital to compensate for lower dowries.
Economic History Seminar
Du 02/06/2021 de 12:30 à 14:00
Via Zoom
ASSOUAD Lydia (PSE)
Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building: Ataturk's Role in the Formation of Turkish Identity
Can leaders shape identity and legitimize new social orders? I address this question by studying the role of Mustafa Kemal "Atatu?rk", the founder of modern Turkey, in spreading a new national identity. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, which exploits time and geographic variation in Kemal’s visits to districts, I test whether exposure to a charismatic leader affects citizens’ take-up of the new Turkish identity. I find that people living in visited districts are more likely to embrace the common identity, as proxied by the adoption of first names in "Pure Turkish", the new language introduced by the state. I show that Kemal was more efficient in rallying people, compared to I?smet I?no?nu?, his Prime Minister, suggesting that he had an idiosyncratic effect. Results are mostly driven by places where he met with local elites, where he made a speech and that had nationalistic clubs in the Ottoman Era. Visits also predict the future opening of new nationalistic associations "the People's House" ("Halk Evleri") as well as their resources. Overall, the findings are consistent with the Weberian view that charismatic authority can legitimize new social orders.