{"title":"Political leader and ODA: Effects of the overseas presidential visits on bilateral official development aid in South Korea","authors":"H. Jung","doi":"10.1142/s0217590823500406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217590823500406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22940,"journal":{"name":"The Singapore Economic Review","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73440759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INVESTIGATING RACIAL SALARY DISCRIMINATION AND THE ROLE OF BARGAINING POWER: EVIDENCE FROM THE NBA","authors":"Wenze Li","doi":"10.1142/s0217590823500303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217590823500303","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates racial salary discrimination by analyzing an NBA dataset from 1985 to 2022. My findings reveal that non-white players receive around 10% lower remuneration than their white counterparts, after accounting for the player, team and consumer attributes. I investigate this salary gap, indicative of discrimination against black players, by studying the salary contracts under which players possess different levels of bargaining power. I find that this earning shortfall is strongly persistent under contracts where employers have monopsony and oligopsony power, suggesting that slight relaxation of the competition in the contracting environment cannot alleviate the discrimination. Nevertheless, discrimination is eliminated when players are signed under contracts that are protected by the collective power of a union. In addition, I discover that a negative demand shock (proxied by COVID-19) and a negative supply shock (proxied by lockouts) amplify this racial discrimination.","PeriodicalId":22940,"journal":{"name":"The Singapore Economic Review","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77811961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does U.S. reduce the food waste by predicting food away from home and food at home?","authors":"Soo‐Eun Kim, J. Seok","doi":"10.1142/s021759082350039x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s021759082350039x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22940,"journal":{"name":"The Singapore Economic Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82631014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location and geographical concentration patterns of Indian manufacturing industries: Evidence from the rural and urban areas","authors":"Sugam Agarwal, S. Behera","doi":"10.1142/s0217590823500388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217590823500388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22940,"journal":{"name":"The Singapore Economic Review","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78064595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian Doll of Sustainability: Factor Endowments, Democratic Political Equality and Income Inequality in the Post-Communist Central and Eastern European Countries","authors":"Anna Auza, J. Fuinhas","doi":"10.1142/s0217590823500376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217590823500376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22940,"journal":{"name":"The Singapore Economic Review","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85016965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}