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Child labor, agricultural shocks and labor sharing in rural Ethiopia

Debebe, Zelalem Yilma - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

The author studies the effect of an agricultural shock and a labor sharing arrangement (informal social network) on child labor. Albeit bad parental preference to child labor (as the strand of literature claims), poor households face compelling situations to send their child to work. This is,...

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Critical learning episodes in the evolution of Brazilian business start-ups: a theoretical and analytical tool

Corradi, Corradi, A.A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

This study investigates critical learning episodes as landmarks in the evolution of business start-ups. A framework that combines individual learning processes with the Penrosian resource-based theory of the firm, and the concepts of search and routines from evolutionary economics provides the...

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Child labor, agricultural shocks and labor sharing in rural Ethiopia

Debebe, Zelalem Yilma - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Klasen, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

There is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long … Island of Sulawesi and find technology adoption to play a crucial role. We show that geography-induced migration together …

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, M.; Klasen, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

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Social capital? : from pizza connection to collective action : an inquiry into power, culture and civil society

Lenci, Lenci, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1997

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Social capital? : from pizza connection to collective action' : an inquiry into power, culture and civil society

LENCI, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1997

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Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Messkoub, Messkoub, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

This paper provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …

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Automation, employment and the Third World : the case of the electronics industry

Ernst, Ernst, D. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1985

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A few notes on the expansion of the manufacturing sector in Indonesia

Keuning, Steven Jan - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1985

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