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The effect of schooling on worker productivity: evidence from a South African industry panel

Burger, Rulof P.; Teal, Francis J. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Schooling is typically found to be highly correlated with individual earnings in African countries. However, African firm or sector level studies have failed to identify a similarly strong effect for average worker schooling levels on productivity. This has been interpreted as evidence that...

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana

Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2008

In Ghana there is a highly developed apprenticeship system where young men and women undertake sector-specific private training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector. In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey with detailed questions on the background, training...

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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia

Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

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Women's empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Burgess, Robin; … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Women in developing countries are disempowered relative to their contemporaries in developed countries. High youth unemployment and early marriage and childbearing interact to limit human capital investment and enforce dependence on men. In this paper we evaluate an attempt to jump-start...

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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market

Falco, Paolo - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...

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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer.

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then …-related technologies. We conclude that the “double externality” problem, that is the presence of both environmental and knowledge …

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