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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries … poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822444
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822834
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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566818
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Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development
Smith, Stephen C.; Rothbaum, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884382
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703315
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A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Jasso, Guillermina; Kotz, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two closely-related new families of continuous distributions, which we call the mirrorexponential and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761641
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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...
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Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions,...
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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …
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