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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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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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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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Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in …
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … earnings gap in a robust way. -- earnings differential ; entrepreneurship ; gender pay gap ; Germany ; self-employed ; self-employment …
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psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …
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Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
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an impact evaluation-based approach on firm-level data from 42 African countries, we show that SMEs with access to formal …
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