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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...
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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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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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The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … stimulate exports and growth. Under any currency regime, Zimbabwe needs to adhere to sound macroeconomic policies, avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891170
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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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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender …
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