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Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in Viet Nam

Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

A rising number of firms from developing countries have adopted voluntary private standards in the last decade. This has become an area of active research, especially in terms of the impact of private standards on trade, organizational performance, and employee outcomes. This paper analyses how...

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A 2016 social accounting matrix for South Africa with an occupationally disaggregated labour market representation

Seventer, Dirk van; Davies, Robert H. - 2019

Examining the economy-wide consequences of South Africa following a similar trajectory of labour market polarization to the rest of the world requires an appropriate database for an economy-wide policy analysis framework. This paper describes how a 2015 South Africa social accounting matrix...

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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : Insider-outsider theory revisited

Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019

Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...

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Are caste categories misleading? : the relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste we find patterns that are consistent with existing literature: lower-caste women are more likely to...

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Ethnic dominance and exclusion : unpacking cross-national data

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2022

evaluate data on how power is distributed between ethnic groups are in short supply. To address this gap in the literature, the …

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Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics : the ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017

McNabb, Kyle - 2017

recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policymakers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes … feedback and changes to the underlying source data. It is not the intention to repeat the original motivations behind the …

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Understanding inequality and its evolution in Kenya : the contribution of the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database initiative

Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano M.; Oleche, … - 2023

that can be used to analyse the inequality phenomenon in and among countries. The data are easily accessible for use in … Database (WIID) initiative. This initiative is among the leading data innovations in the field of inequality research. This … data, such as the Kenyan inequality diagnostics and the fiscal incidence studies conducted by the African Centre of …

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Tax revenue data in Africa : the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparison

Mbuyamba, Frankie; McNabb, Kyle - 2024

This paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research Government Revenue Dataset. We consider the background,...

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