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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals

Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

matching methodology, in the case of multiple treatments, in order to evaluate the difference between the survival function the …

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

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Uluslararasi Gelir Dagilimi ve Yakinsama Klupleri Uzerine Gorgul Bir Arastirma

Attar, M. Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

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True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993: First calculation based on household surveys alo

milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper derives world income or expenditure distribution of individuals for two years 1988 and 1993. It is the first paper to calculate world distribution for individuals based entirely on household survey data from 91 countries, and adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity between...

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Understanding New Zealand<92>s Changing Income Distribution 1983<96>98:A Semiparametric Analysis

Hyslop, Dean R.; Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses changes in the distribution of equivalised gross household income and income inequality in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We analyse the distributional effects of changes in household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), household socio- demographic...

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

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Core Many-to-one Matchings by Fixed-point Methods

Echenique, Federico; Oviedo, Jorge - EconWPA - 2003

We characterize the core many-to-one matchings as fixed points of a map. Our characterization gives an algorithm for finding core allocations; the algorithm is efficient and simple to implement. Our characterization does not require substitutable preferences, so it is separate from the structure...

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Stable Outcomes For Contract Choice Problems

Lahiri, Somdeb - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we consider the problem of choosing a set of multi-party contracts, where each coalition of agents has a non-empty finite set of feasible contracts to choose from. We call such problems, cntract choic problems. We provide conditions under which a contract choice problem has a...

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Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Berliant, Marcus; Wang, Ping - EconWPA - 2004

Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed, are examined first. Then endogenous growth models, where use of some factor by a firm increases the productivity of other...

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