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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822874
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562528
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884251
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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. …
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
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Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis
Cho, Yoon Y.; Honorati, Maddalena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and financing is more effective for labor activities. Additionally, financing support appears more effective for women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959760
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265667
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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635586