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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271798
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262763
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268660
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278617
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2003
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262760
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Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008
cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268940
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268949
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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply: the case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen; Kimmel, Jean - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269340
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269570