context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages … relationship is found for workers in agriculture, and (iii) higher minimum wages were associated with a lower share of workers in …

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 …

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …

this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …