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issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … non-migrants – that is, "the winner takes it all." This result should be of concern to policy makers in Ethiopia and …
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technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises from Ethiopia over the period 1996-2004 and deploying System Generalized … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role …
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This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed …
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household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …
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Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...
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Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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