Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 212
Cover Image
Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445
Cover Image
A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria: how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2008
This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268768
Cover Image
Where has all the money gone? Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268229
Cover Image
The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
Cover Image
Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998
By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262258
Cover Image
The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262276
Cover Image
Happiness and economic growth: does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271238
Cover Image
Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543
Cover Image
Firing regulations and firm size in the developing world: Evidence from differential enforcement
Almeida, Rita K.; Susanli, Z. Bilgen - 2011
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280651
Cover Image
Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282355