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A fiscal approach to the social contract in subSaharan African countries : looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governance

Nichelatti, Enrico; Hiilamo, Heikki - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that many developing countries could not respond effectively to crises due to their limited capacity to diversify their social protection responses. Social protection systems depend mainly on government tax revenue capacity. Raising domestic revenue still represents...

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Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm : evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

La Mattina, Giulia; Picone, Gabriel A.; Ahoure, Alban; … - 2017

We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in employees' outcomes using detailed linked employer-employee data from the formal sector in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. Our empirical strategy relies on the inclusion of firm...

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Unequal expectations : gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Linked in by foreign direct investment : the role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia

Newman, Carol; Page, John M.; Rand, John; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2018

This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign affiliates as suppliers, customers, or...

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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...

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Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia

Muttaqien, Arip; Sologon, Denisa; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018

Recently, quantitative methods have been increasingly used in ethnicity research, which traditionally has relied mainly on qualitative methods. However, quantitative studies on ethnicity in Indonesia are scarce, even though the country has more than 600 ethnic groups living across some 17...

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Gender matters : private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...

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Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work : evidence from Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh

Bidisha, Sayema Haque; Mahmood, Tanveer; Rahman, Mahir A. - 2021

With structural changes in production coupled with technological progress, there have been shifts in modes of production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations. This paper has utilized different rounds of Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh...

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Does HIV/AIDS matter for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

Mveyange, Anthony; Skovsgaard, Christian; Lesner, Tine - 2015

Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this … paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS … epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2003-12. Our main finding shows that the impact of HIV/AIDS …

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Cities of youth : post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality

Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014

social mobility. The paper describes several forms of sociality that brings young women and men together around music …

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