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Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583492
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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264781
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395443
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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763516
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province’s competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466461
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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959758
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959849
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Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722703
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822273
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788944