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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …
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positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
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Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that...
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dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …
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