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Financing, ownership, and performance : a novel, longitudinal firm-level database

Brown, J. David; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2024

, profitability, and owner aspirations - all linked to annual firm-level employment data since the firm hired its first employee …

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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Thierry - 2020

In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...

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Mining in Arctic and non-Arctic regions : a socioeconomic assessment

Frederiksen, Anders; Kadenic, Maja Due - 2016

In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from Norway, Sweden, and Finland for the period 1986 to 2013. The applied econometric model allows for...

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Mining and gender gaps in India

Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, Xinde; Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, Yana - 2020

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …

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Regional differences in intersectoral linkages and diverse patterns of structural transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

censuses for Ghana, we test and find support for four predictions related to this hypothesis: (1) a recent, positive mining … the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors … other sectors with respect to the change in employment in mining closely follows the regional patterns of intersectoral …

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The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health : evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank

Shui, Ailun; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Mierau, Jochen O.; … - 2025

mining-induced earthquakes. Leveraging data from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank and the Royal Netherlands … support a reassessment of the societal costs of the mining of natural gas. …

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The consequences of a piece rate on quantity and quality : evidence from a field experiment

Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013

This field experiment examines output quantity and quality for workers in a data input business. We observe two sets of workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can...

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A behavioral account of the labor market : the role of fairness concerns

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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