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More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda

Golan, Jennifer; Lay, Jann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition, gender-related inefficiency in household production might...

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The Household Production Function Approach to Valuing Climate: The Case of Japan

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin; Narita, Daiju - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

According to household production function theory households combine marketed goods and nonmarket environmental goods to produce service flows of direct value to the household. This readily explains why, as an input to household production activities, households might have preferences over the...

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Who bears the costs of climate change? Evidence from Tunisia

Wiebelt, Manfred; Al-Raffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

In order to estimate the economic costs of climate change for Tunisia, this paper uses a combination of biophysical and economic models. In addition, the paper draws on the literature to complement the quantitative analysis with policy recommendations on how to adapt to the changing climate. The...

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Human Capital Depreciation During Family-related Career Interruptions in Male and Female Occupations

Görlich, Dennis; Grip, Andries de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...

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Selection wages and discrimination

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...

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Informal-formal Linkages and Informal Enterprise Performance in Urban West Africa

Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

forward linkages, and that linkages vary with the degree of informality, occurring less frequently if firms have no ties to … associated with the observed backward linkages. The Probit analysis corroborates the importance of the degree of informality for … robust impact of backward linkages, whereas the degree of informality of the enterprises in our sample seems to affect firm …

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Is the Informal Sector Constrained from the Demand Side? Evidence for Six West African Capitals

Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Employing a unique dataset that covers households from six West African capitals, this paper provides new evidence on the demand for informal sector products and services. We first investigate whether demand linkages exist between formal and informal products and distribution channels, and...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of income derived from non-agricultural...

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The nature of corruption: An interdisciplinary perspective

Dimant, Eugen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to a massive trans-border threat while creating...

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