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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals …

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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? : evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...

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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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Sectoral adjustment of employment : the impact of outsourcing and trade at the micro level

Egger, Peter (contributor); Pfaffermayr, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Is mobile money changing rural Africa? : evidence from a field experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023

Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field...

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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020

Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...

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Does violent conflict affect labor supply of farm households? : the Nigerian experience

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021

agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data … that on average, exposure to violent conflict significantly reduces total family labor supply hours in agriculture. We also …

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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); … - 2007

Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...

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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...

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