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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271798
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Missing men: Differential effects of war and socialism on female labour force participation in Vietnam
Kreibaum, Merle; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
woman working by around eleven percentage points, suggesting a larger and more persistent effect of socialism on female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301332
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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401631
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Lost in transition: life satisfaction on the road to capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268572
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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822809
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Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008
cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268940
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268949
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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply: the case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen; Kimmel, Jean - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269340
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269570