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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...
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …
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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
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This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is complementary to that of White ethnic group. This finding supports...
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Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …
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, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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