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Capital-skill complementarity: evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana
Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …
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The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert; Sen, Kunal - 2021
on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay …-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major metropolitan centres to a standstill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658271
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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2005
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...
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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
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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
This paper investigates the East African Community (EAC) partner states' readiness for a common currency. It uses recent data to assess the impact of policy coordination in the region during the last seven years of East African Monetary Union's protocol implementation. Despite some similarities...
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Real exchange rate, foreign trade and employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280727
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283572
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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dr?ze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...
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Fiscal effects of minimum wages: an analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
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