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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
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This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...
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, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and … distinct labor market states and identifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility … market states of formal-salaried, informal-salaried, formal self-employed, informal self-employed, unemployed and inactive …
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The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different …
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results show most informal firms won't formalize unless forced to do so, suggesting formality offers little private benefit to …
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Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We … first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows across different labor market states. We develop transition probabilities …
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In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed … of the Turkish labor market as previously thought. -- formal/informal employment ; labor market dynamics ; panel data …
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