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This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women...
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unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …
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outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
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-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm creation requires entrepreneurial search and paying the start-up costs, while …
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Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial …
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model …
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study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …
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-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …
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study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …
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margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …
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