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The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Laderchi, Caterina Cruggeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212564
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Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi M.; Disney, Richard; Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149151
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791524
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723562
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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976879
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558934
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822546
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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764597
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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "…[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610136
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285