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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070421
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682959
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Risk Management among the Poor: The Case of Microfinancial Services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564688
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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151026
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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990932
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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990941
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884259
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884329