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Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997216
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Working women in an urban setting
Levin, Carol E.; Maxwell, Daniel G.; Armar-Klemesu, Margaret - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
Data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana, are used to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and in securing access to food in urban areas. The high number of female-headed households and the large percent of working women in the sample provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037779
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Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037810