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Information Frictions, Belief Updating and Internal Migration : Evidence from Ghana and Uganda
Frohnweiler, Sarah; Beber, Bernd; Ebert, Cara - 2023
of a randomly assigned information treatment about regional income differentials in Ghana and Uganda to learn about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263351
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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet : Evidence from Nigeria
Bahia, Kalvin - 2020
This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834577
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa : Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi - 2014
from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051020
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Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-Offs and Sorting
Eriksson, Tor - 2010
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by firms to attract and retain the kind of employees they desire. Empirical analysis of these topics are scarce as they require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136028
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Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits : Facts, Concepts, Issues
Holzmann, Robert - 2011
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124777
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089009
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069200
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Employee Health and Employer Incentives
Hullegie, Patrick - 2015
In the past two decades the OECD has regularly voiced concern about the labor market exclusion of people with disabilities and about the cost of disability insurance programs. This paper examines whether the fundamental disability insurance reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015741
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Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Employer Provided Fringe Benefits
Mok, Wallace - 2012
We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life insurance and pension). Restricting to full-time workers in the private sector, we find that African Americans are significantly less likely to get fringe benefit offers than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112770
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Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation
Mok, Wallace - 2009
This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155559