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a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a business or employment strategy. In many ways Africa's failure to … examine the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity in Africa via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the … a dominant group (in terms of population and also politically) has an impact on the possibility of employment and the …
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Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...
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This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in … India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …
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We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma when members of one group are unable to … may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main result, however, is that the introduction of ingroup punishment in … in situations where outgroup punishment alone fails to induce cooperation. Our findings are consistent with historical …
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We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is...
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Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...
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During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al. 2010). At the same time, there has been a shift in the patterns of livelihoods, whereby households rely more on sources of income from outside their own farms. When the adult in...
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an important path out of poverty. To take advantage of these more attractive livelihood strategies, households need to …
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, poverty and inequality in Kenyan rural districts are transmitted to other areas over time. Our estimates also show that, for …
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This paper proposes an explanation for the decrease in social mobility that has occurred in the last two decades in a number of advanced economies, as well as for the divergence in mobility dynamics across countries. Within an intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education...
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