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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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By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
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entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
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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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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa. -- credit constraints ; productive entrepreneurship …
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market, the paper examines the barriers to job creation and youth entrepreneurship. It concludes with experiences of other …
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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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This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …
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