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In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …
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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of …
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of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …
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Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …
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presents results of an experimental validation conducted among low-income individuals in Nairobi, Kenya.We find that …
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Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …
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productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper … Bank's Enterprise Survey's database for 2013, we find that capital intensity and wage significantly and positively affected …
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