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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853
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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419074
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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413138
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516465
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland … in Poland, though there is no change in hourly wage inequality, structural change has had clear impacts of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238