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As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be volatile and risky, but to provide autonomy and...
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extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia using monetary and non-monetary measures. Quantile regression and OLS based …
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Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of …
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1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … initial evidence that the increased enrollment in Ethiopia outweighed any cost due to reductions in quality. …
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issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … non-migrants - that is, "the winner takes it all." This result should be of concern to policy makers in Ethiopia and …
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Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...
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This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 …
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cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia …
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We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … least developed countries. The research into fertility and labor supply has relied on a variety of methodologies for … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband …
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … country. -- Ethiopia ; positional concern ; relative income …
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