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This study uses the Ricardian approach to examine the economic impact of climate change on agriculture in Zimbabwe. Net …) have significant effects on net farm revenues in Zimbabwe. In addition to the analysis of all farms, the study also … suggest that agricultural production in Zimbabwe's smallholder farming system is significantly constrained by climatic factors …
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diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
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This paper studies the causes and consequences of informality and applies the analysis to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the reasons why widespread informality should be of great concern. The...
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payments as an indicator of corruption, women seem at first significantly less corrupt than men as consistently suggested by … the literature. However, once power conferred by position is controlled for, women appear in fact equally likely to take … than facilities managed by men. However, women are significantly less aggressive in the amount they extract from patients …
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This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or informal sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
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The degree to which a labor market is segmented and jobs in the formal sector of the economy are rationed is critical to the analysis of coverage of social insurance and pensions. Using unique panel data spanning the 1998-99 contraction in Chile, the author finds little evidence that...
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What policies encourage firms to become formal? The standard approach emphasizes reducing the costs of compliance with government regulation. This is unlikely to be sufficient. Instead we need to understand compliance as a function not only of firm-level costs and benefits but also in terms of...
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The authors estimate the effect on business start-ups of a program that significantly speeds up firm registration procedures. The program was implemented in Mexico in different municipalities at different dates. Authors estimates suggest that new start-ups increased by about 4 percent in...
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This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a far-reaching trade liberalization, and changes in labor legislation through the Constitutional...
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This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables the authors to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that...
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