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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment : caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries? : evidence from Ecuador
Oliva, Nicolás; Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2021
Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …
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Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy : long-term evidence from Indonesia
Rizky, Mayang; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - 2020
We use long-spanning individual longitudinal data to examine the long-term labour market outcomes of low-tier informal workers. We investigate their characteristics, calculate the extent of switching, and identify the characteristics of those who have switched. Finally, we estimate the earnings...
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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance : a multilevel approach
McNabb, Kyle - 2017
This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin...
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Smart classrooms and education outcomes : evidence from Rwanda
Nsabimana, Aimable; Nganga, Muthoni; Niyizamwiyitira, … - 2024
In this study, we explore the impact of a smart classroom (SCM) programme on student performance in science subjects in a high-stakes national exam for middle-high school students in Rwanda. To do this, we leverage plausibly exogenous variations in programme exposure induced by the staggered...
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Spillover effects of international standards : work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises
Trifković, Neda - 2015
Most studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of standards on employees. Using a two-year matched firm-employee panel dataset, this paper finds that the application of standards improves work conditions in small and medium...
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Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps : evidence from Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018
We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits. Our results show that cognitive skills have greater explanatory power than personality...
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy : Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity : evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2017
sector jobs. This paper quantifies impacts on income distribution and efficiency of expanding developing countries' social … protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
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Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality : a microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Osei, Robert Darko - 2018
The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a … accessible to all. In Ghana - although basic education is largely free - for secondary education this was not the case until … effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the …
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