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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania

Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2018

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

consumers. Poverty rates are expected to decline by 0.31 percentage points, driven by a reduction of 0.22 percentage points for …

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development …

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 19862003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unionsin the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membershipwage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range ofindividual, job and...

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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages

Gomes, Pedro - 2010

I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...

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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages

Afonso, António - 2010

We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, the unemployment rate and the degree...

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The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes

Anghel, Brindusa - 2011

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining: (i) gender differences regarding choices to work in either PS or private sector, and (ii) subsequent changes in female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some...

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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...

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Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon M. - 2012

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...

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