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This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
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This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The...
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The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
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issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … non-migrants – that is, "the winner takes it all." This result should be of concern to policy makers in Ethiopia and …
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technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises from Ethiopia over the period 1996-2004 and deploying System Generalized … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role …
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This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
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household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …
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This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...
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