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Family migration: a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268526
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Minimum wages in Kenya
Andalón, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269259
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Got technology? The impact of computers and cell phones on productivity in a difficult business climate ; evidence from firms with female owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274691
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268355
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272028
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle : Migrants Versus Natives
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or selfemployed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272297
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - 2003
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262237
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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper … Bank's Enterprise Survey's database for 2013, we find that capital intensity and wage significantly and positively affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494295
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Feed the Children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; De Rock, Bram - 2021
To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one...
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Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya
Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469303