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SUMMARY:Development and political economy seminar - Isabela Manelici
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DESCRIPTION:Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “respons
 ible sourcing” (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide\, including re
 quirements on worker compensation\, benefits and working conditions. Are th
 ese policies just ‘hot air’ or do they impact exposed suppliers? If so\
 , what is the welfare incidence of RS in general equilibrium (GE) on averag
 e and across worker types in sourcing origin countries? To answer these que
 stions\, we develop a quantitative theoretical model of RS and combine it w
 ith a unique new database. In the theory\, we show that the welfare implica
 tions of RS are a priori ambiguous\, depending on an interplay between what
  is akin to an export tax (+) and a labor market distortion (−). Empirica
 lly\, we build a database covering the near-universe of RS rollouts by more
  than 400 MNE affiliates in Costa Rica (CR) since 2009\, linked with firm-t
 o-firm transactions and matched employer-employee microdata for all CR firm
 s. Using these data\, we find that RS rollouts lead to significant reductio
 ns in firm sales and employment at exposed suppliers\, an increase in their
  salary payments to initially low-wage workers and a reduction in their low
 -wage employment share. We then use the estimated effects and the microdata
  to calibrate the model and quantify counterfactuals in GE. We find that wh
 ile MNE RS policies have led to significant welfare gains among the roughly
  20% of low-wage workers who are employed at exposed suppliers ex ante\, th
 e real incomes of the remaining majority of low-wage workers in CR decline 
 due to adverse indirect effects on their wages and the domestic price index
 .\\n\\nContact: Timothée Demont : timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.frLorenzo R
 otunno : lorenzo.rotunno[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://ams
 e-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/isabela-manelici
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CONTACT:Timothée Demont :&nbsp\;timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.frLorenzo Rotu
 nno : lorenzo.rotunno[at]univ-amu.fr
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