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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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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing : an application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012
dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680989
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296187
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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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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo (contributor) - 2008
skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by … ; cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; formal education ; adult literacy programs ; Ghana …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793530
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Capital-skill complementarity : evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana
Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932439
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The economic consequences of "Brain Drain" of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809999
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Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005
components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002597744
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Is rationing in the microfinance sector determined by the microfinance type? : evidence from Ghana
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2015
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510572