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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …

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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …

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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...

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Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colonial Western Nigeria. Using data on expenditure of cocoa farmers in 1952, I show that farmers in townships with higher social spending individually spend more on education. The relationship holds after controlling for various...

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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa.

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. We examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the relationships...

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Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century

Baten, Jörg; Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012

The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often constrain investigations into the long-run determinants of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals in the Courts of Justice records in the Cape Archive,...

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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa.

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over rising unemployment and depleting per capita income accruing there-from. We look at the issue in this paper from a long run perspective by examining the nature of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109093

Long-term effects of population growth on aggregate investment dynamics: selected country evidence for Africa

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The role of Africa in world demographic change is primary and consequences on future investment dynamics could provide some insight on how unemployment, economic migration and other issues resulting there-from could be addressed. Using Johansen and Granger-causality models on data from 1977 to...

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Determinants of Health Professionals’ Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment

Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Abstract Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization play-out in...

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The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa's history of slave exporting to its current economic development. In this paper I show that differences in investment in education may be one of the channels through which that history has affected current development. I combine data on...

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