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This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 … increase in firm-level investment, capital per worker, and labor productivity …
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This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political …
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significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed …
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from rural to urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival …
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efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …
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Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
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Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
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We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs...
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