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use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this … framework, we show that possibility of an inverted U- shaped relationship between the credit supply and the size of the firm … to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. …
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In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...
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'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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%. At the household level, street paving increased the use of collateral-based credit and average loan size. Additionally … result of pavement. We provide compelling evidence that the mechanism explaining the durable goods increase is the credit … channel: the raise in durable goods as well as in credit use was only present among households with access to financial …
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of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the … lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs have more constrained access to credit than do men. Testing …
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Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India …
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' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to … investigate the relationship between credit availability and rural labor supply. We find that providing households with access to … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …
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