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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360846
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252636
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Do large employers pay more in developing countries? : the case of five African countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert J. - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415323
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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342
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Mobile broadband internet, poverty and labor outcomes in Tanzania
Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Cruz, Genaro; Masaki, Takaaki - 2021
on the rollout of mobile broadband coverage in Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012620926
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Does child labor lead to vulnerable employment in adulthood? : evidence for Tanzania
Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2019
avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980381
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Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of … the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent … literature, we find strong evidence of relative deprivation in financial satisfaction of all individuals in Tanzania, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871
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Civil wars beyond their borders : the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. (contributor) - 2008
homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees …. -- Civil conflicts ; refugees ; children ; human capital ; health ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693706
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Do returns to education depend on how and who you ask?
Serneels, Pieter; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew - 2016
survey experiment in Tanzania, this paper investigates whether survey methods matter for estimating mincerian returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493944
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732097