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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …

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Living in rural areas and self-employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...

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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

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Entrepreneurship among low-, mid- and high-income workers in South America : a fuzzy-set analysis

Velilla, Jorge; Molina, José Alberto; Ortega, Raquel - 2020

South America. Using data from the GEM APS for the period 2005-2017, we apply fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis …, allowing us to find causal links in the form of necessary conditions linked to entrepreneurship in the sample countries … gender. However, peer effects, the social perception of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills, and formal education seem …

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Entrepreneurship, institutions and skills in low-income countries

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …

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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...

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Gender disparities in employment and earnings in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2016

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...

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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

time-use data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014 to analyze the spatial distribution of self-employment across …

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Short- vs long-term intergenerational correlations of employment and self-employment in Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020

-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal … data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates show a significant short-term correlation between the current …

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