R Robertson

Biographic Data

ID10177
NAMER Robertson
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMERobertson
SIGNATUREROBERTSON R
AFFILIATIONSSt. John's College
ORCID0000-0002-0989-7673
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1895
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Gender-Segmented Labour Markets and Foreign Demand Shocks

    Carlos Góes, Gladys López-Acevedo et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2026

    Gender segmentation in labour markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We develop a theory that combines exports with gender-segmented labour markets and show that, in this framework, foreign demand shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male employment ratio. If a foreign demand shock happens in a female-intensive (male-intensive) sector, the model predicts that the female-to-male employment ratio should increase (d…

  • Exports to jobs: Morocco’s trade patterns and local labor market outcomes

    Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys López-Acevedo et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Development Journal2025References: 1

  • Is crime a “root cause” of Central American emigration? Evidence from El Salvador

    Open AccessKaleb Abreha, T J Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025References: 6

  • Heterogeneous trade agreements and adverse implications of restrictive rules of origin: Evidence from apparel trade

    Open AccessKaleb Abreha, R RobertsonARTICLEWorld Economy2023

    We revisit the heterogeneous effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs) using a PPML gravity model and comparing apparel and total trade. Apparel, as a politically sensitive sector, has specialised, unusually restrictive rules of origin (RoOs) clauses that vary considerably across RTAs. Our RTA estimates have a significantly higher variance for apparel trade than total trade. We also find that the sizes of the RTA estimates for apparel trade are…

  • The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia

    Matías Morales Cerda, Gladys López-Acevedo et al.ARTICLEContemporary South Asia2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and the extremely low female labor force participation rates observed in South Asian countries. The Labor Force Surveys from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan are merged with the Global Terrorism Database to estimate the effect of terrorist attacks on female labor supply. We exploit the geographical variation in exposure to violence to compare administrative units e…

  • Labour market adjustment to third‐party competition: Evidence from Mexico

    Open AccessR Robertson, Timothy J Halliday et al.ARTICLEWorld Economy2020

    China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third‐party markets. We examine labour market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with US apparel and textile imports from China. Using data on US imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labour force surveys, we show that US imports from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's apparel and textile…

  • Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

    R Robertson, Gladys López-Acevedo et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2020

    Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) period, but smaller premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women in developing countries post-MFA but women – both in and out of the apparel industry – are susceptible to changes…

  • Lights On: How Transparency Increases Compliance in Cambodian Global Value Chains

    Open AccessR RobertsonARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2020Cited by: 1References: 28

    This article evaluates the implementation of a transparency policy in garment factories in Cambodia through the Better Factories Cambodia program. Using a difference-in-difference approach that is often applied to control for endogeneity, the author finds that compliance improved following the implementation of the transparency policy. Compliance increased in a group of 21 critical compliance areas that represent fundamental worker rights relativ…

  • Red Is the New Green: The Rise of China's Influence in Latin America

    Open AccessR RobertsonARTICLELatin American Research Review2019

    This essay reviews the following works:China on the Ground in Latin America: Challenges for the Chinese and Impacts on the Region. By R. Evan Ellis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. ix + 291. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780198738510

  • Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2015

    In recent decades, historians have examined the growth of a consumer society in the later eighteenth century; Consumption and the World of Goods, edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter (1993), is a landmark in this research, which is still generating varied work. Students of Germany, particularly Daniel Purdy and Karin Wurst, have noted that the culture of classical Weimar, despite the rearguard action mounted by Goethe and Schiller against the low…

  • Romantik und Revolution: Zum politischen Reformpotential einer unpolitischen Bewegung

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2013

    Journal Article Romantik und Revolution: Zum politischen Reformpotential einer unpolitischen Bewegung Get access Romantik und Revolution: Zum politischen Reformpotential einer unpolitischen Bewegung. Edited by Klaus Ries. Heidelberg: Winter. 2012. 317 pp. €54.00 (hardback). Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson The Queen’s College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 2, Ju…

  • Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2013

    Martin Luther’s writings against the Jews have embarrassed later generations, both by their substance and by their tone. Their initial argument is theological. Both in the Old Testament and in Luther’s time, Jews profess that they can lead a life pleasing to God without the help of divine grace. For their rejection of the Messiah, they have been punished with exile, and Christians should not persecute them but leave them in their misery as a drea…

  • Moses Mendelssohn: Eine Biografie

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2010

    Journal Article Moses Mendelssohn: Eine Biografie Get access Moses Mendelssohn: Eine Biografie. By Shmuel Feiner. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2009. 222 pp. €24.90 (hardback). Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson St John's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 98–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghq002 Published: 01 March 2010

  • The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2009

    Under what may seem an oxymoronic title, David Sorkin develops and extends the argument, eloquently put forward by Jonathan Sheehan in The Enlightenment Bible (2005) and elsewhere, that the Enlightenment marked not the decline but the transformation of religion. Instead of assisting the process of secularization, as Peter Gay maintained a generation ago, the Enlightenment ‘was not only compatible with religious belief but conducive to it’ (p. 3).…

  • Der Dichter stand auf hoher Kuste: Gerhart Hauptmann im Dritten Reich

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2009

    Although he enjoys little favour among present-day critics, Gerhart Hauptmann remains Germany's greatest twentieth-century playwright after Brecht. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912, he was the most distinguished author to remain in Germany under the Third Reich. Hence his late career offers a case study in the Nazis’ cultural politics and in the impact of tyranny on an avowedly unpolitical writer. Hauptmann fits none of the increa…

  • Purchasing Power Parity and aggregation bias for a developing country: The case of Mexico

    Open AccessR Robertson, Anil Kumar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2008References: 2

  • Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2008Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University Get access Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. By William ClarkChicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2007 (first published 2006). 668 pp. $22.50/£13 (paperback). Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson St John's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 26, Issue 4,…

  • Religion and the Enlightenment: A Review Essay

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History2007

    Recent studies of the Enlightenment suggest that its relation to religion is far more complex than a simple process of increasing secularization. The book by Sheehan shows, by examining translations of the Bible into English and German in the Enlightenment, how religion was reshaped, leading eventually to the dogma-free Christianity proposed by Matthew Arnold. Israel's book argues that alongside the relatively cautious mainstream Enlightenment th…

  • Judaism and Enlightenment

    R RobertsonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Journal Article Judaism and Enlightenment Get access Judaism and Enlightenment. By ADAM SUTCLIFFE (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 314. £45; pb. £15.99). Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson St John's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1469–1471, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel303 Published: 01 December 2006

  • Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration

    Gordon H Hanson, Gordon Hanson et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2002

    In this paper, we examine the impact of enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border on wages in U.S. and Mexican border regions. The U.S. Border Patrol polices U.S. boundaries, seeking to apprehend any undocumented entrants. It concentrates its efforts on the Mexican border. We examine labor markets in border areas of California, Texas, and Mexico. For each region, we have high-frequency data on wages and person-hours the U.S. Border Patrol spends poli…

  • Labor adjustment costs in a destination country: The case of Mexico

    Open AccessR Robertson, Donald H DutkowskyARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2002References: 3

  • Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination; Opera and Drama; Judaism in Music and Other Essays; The Jews and Germany. From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History1996

    Journal Article Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination; Opera and Drama; Judaism in Music and Other Essays; The Jews and Germany. From the ‘Judeo-German Symbiosis’ to the Memory of Auschwitz Get access Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 251–254, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.251 Published: 01 April 1996

  • Fictions of Germany: Images of the German Nation in the Modern Novel

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History1995

    Journal Article Fictions of Germany: Images of the German Nation in the Modern Novel Get access Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.423 Published: 01 July 1995

  • Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe

    R RobertsonARTICLEGerman History1994

  • To Correct the Record: The Politics of Nafta in Mexico

    Open AccessGuy Poitras, R RobertsonARTICLEJournal of Interamerican Studies…1994

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