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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and … from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we focus exclusively on the self-employment participation among south Asian … participation in self-employment by the citizen immigrants and the difference with immigrant non-citizen group becomes statistically …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …
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-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
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We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’ wage formation in France. Our …
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Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may … virtually no cost. We focus on low-skilled women who have recently given birth. We take account of program accessibility …
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by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the … endogenous participation decision predicts the revenue ordering that we see in the field. …
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levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular … for women, although IV coefficients are usually below OLS estimates. …
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