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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry
Katz, Lawrence F. - 1992
Using data from a longitudinal survey of fast food restaurants in Texas, the authors examine the impact of recent changes in the federal minimum wage on a low-wage labor market The authors draw four main conclusions. First, the survey results indicate that less than 5 percent of fast food...
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How Do Firms Build Market Share?
Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2018
The question of how firms build market share matters for firm dynamics, business cycles, international trade, and industrial organization. Using Nielsen Retail Scanner data for the United States, we document that in the consumer food industry, brands experience substantial growth in market share...
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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing
Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...
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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010
"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …
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Mobile Money, Interoperability, and Financial Inclusion
Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Limodio, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates the tradeoff between competition and financial inclusion resulting from the vertical integration between mobile network and money operators. Joining newly assembled data on mobile money fees through the WayBack machine, with sources on network coverage and financials, we...
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001
prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of 'free' migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the high-wage OECD leaders, and …
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Bank Runs and Banking Policies : Lessons for African Policymakers
Kane, Edward J. - 2000
This paper documents and explains the near-permanent banking stress African countries have experienced during the last 20 years. The central hypothesis is that banking stress comes predominantly from unbooked losses and that the level of unbooked losses a banking system can accumulate depends on...
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Why Not Africa?
Freeman, Richard B. - 1999
Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471865
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Taxation and Output Growth : Evidence from African Countries
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 1987
There is considerable debate over the appropriate role for tax policy in developing economies. In one view, tax hikes reduce deficits and ease budgetary pressures, thereby encouraging long-term growth. An alternative view emphasizes the distortionary effects associated with increased taxation...
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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …
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