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Transitions in a West African Labour Market : The Role of Family Networks
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2014
This paper sheds light on the role of family networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to self-employment, and from self-employment to wage employment. It investigates the effects of three dimensions of...
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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021
surveys in seven countries in West Africa in 2018/19 — a subregion with one of the lowest levels of mobile internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243104
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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa : Implication for Development Policies
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2013
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
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The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Meango, Romuald - 2022
Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a frictional labour market with three sectors (public,...
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SISTA : Learning Optimal Transport Costs Under Sparsity Constraints
Carlier, Guillaume; Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred; … - 2021
In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, Kerem - 2014
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061953
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita - 2011
corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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