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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398239
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...
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individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … poor labor market outcomes later in life. Specifically, exposure to Ramadan in the 7th month of gestation results in a …
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by …
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Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...
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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …
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