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Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703713
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Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822769
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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
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791524
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Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap
Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701326
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822588
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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959758
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959849
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Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722703
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822273
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788944