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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the adoption of various components of social security systems as well as contribution rates. Apart from economic determinants of the adoption, the empirical analysis features determinants relating to countries' political systems and contagion. We...
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While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique panel dataset of employees from Latin America's...
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The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...
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This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in … that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …
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The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant institutions, and development issues. Proposed policy approaches...
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In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and … revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue that resulted from that earlier project …
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explicitly take into account general equilibrium effects such as selective migration in response to the war, I then develop an … particular, I leverage the structure of the model along with observed income information and migration flows to identify firm … effect. Selective migration in response to the war also seems to play an important role and implies that local reduced …
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variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy. Using a novel household …
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Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold … greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since March. Causes include lower migration rates, less …
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This paper investigates the impact of migration of male household heads on the autonomy of their spouses. Using panel … endogeneity inherent in the relationship using past migration as the instrument and carefully paying attention to the role of … remittances. We find consistent evidence that male migration increases female self-determination and decision-making power, and …
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