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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884087
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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households
Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612629
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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Community-based health insurance and out-of-pocket healthcare spending in Africa : evidence from Rwanda
Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2016
financing systems. This paper investigates the impact of these schemes on out-of-pocket spending based on three rounds of … increases outpatient spending with no detectable impact on inpatient services. Furthermore, we find notable heterogeneity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458977
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820735
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Organisational accreditation and worker upskilling in Britain
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2018
Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce via on-the-job training may be a vital policy tool available. Using a panel of organisations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845833
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The elasticity of taxable income : a meta-regression analysis
Neisser, Carina - 2018
The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation … in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 51 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949525
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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter (contributor);  … - 2007
attitudes and a large number of background factors. The material employed in the analysis comprises a representative sample of 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635292
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755936