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Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior
Cho, Yoon Y.; Kalomba, Davie; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs – a common phenomenon in the training...
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822588
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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective
Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763537
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074818
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
’s working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643153
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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522423
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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Dillon, Andrew; Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611317
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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...
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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615433
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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