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Families, labor markets and policy
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454115
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193273
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Skills inequalities in 21 countries : PIAAC results for prime-age adults
Heisig, Jan Paul; Solga, Heike - 2014
Only few previous studies have explored cross-national variation in the relationship between educational certificates and competences. In this paper, we investigate the certificate-competence relationship, operationalized as skills gaps by level of educational attainment. More importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441092
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Does gentrification displace poor households? : an "identification-via-interaction" approach
Waights, Sevrin - 2018
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Is poverty the main cause of child work in urban Brazil?
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Mendonça, Rosane Silva Pinto de; … - 2015
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Hinter den Fassaden : zur Ungleichverteilung von Armut, Reichtum, Bildung und Ethnie in den deutschen Städten
Helbig, Marcel - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437449
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Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya
Nandonde, Felix Adamu; Adu-Gyamfi, Richard; Mmusi, Tinaye S. - 2019
Kenya. The study uses primary data to investigate qualitative implications. The findings reveal that South African firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030506
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Party system change and the quality of democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore in greater detail the nexus between party system change and democratic qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are affected by the instability of the patterns of inter-party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759235
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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of sustainable development goals : cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Adu-Gyamfi, Richard; Asongu, Simplice; Mmusi, Tinaye S.; … - 2020
The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania … programmes. We found that firms in Kenya and Zimbabwe have a higher number of male than female employees, while zones in Tanzania … employ more women. We propose that to promote sustainable development in these zones, policy action should concentrate on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219659
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Who wants to be legible? : digitalization and intergroup inequality in Kenya
Garbe, Lisa; McMurry, Nina; Scacco, Alexandra; Zhang, Kelly - 2023
Governments across the Global South have begun introducing biometric IDs (eIDs) in an attempt to improve citizen-state legibility. While such initiatives can improve government efficiency, they also raise important questions about citizen privacy, especially for groups with a history of mistrust...
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