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This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women...
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I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and … the foreign reserves position. We also integrate Africa-specific variables such as existing economic blocs in the region … Southern Africa is promising, but many challenges still persist. The existing economic blocs can provide a first stepping stone …
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model …
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sub-Saharan Africa, even though very little is known about the extent to which young workers in the region are satisfied … satisfaction of youth aged 15-29 in four countries from Eastern and Southern Africa: Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. We …
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