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Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment Growth in Ghana : Evidence from an Industry-District Panel
Kerr, Andrew - 2019
In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated … representative firm data that covers the formal and informal economy to investigate the impact of agglomerative forces on employment … employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing, finding that there is no evidence that population density is associated with faster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865433
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Is Africa's Economy at a Turning Point?
Go, Delfin S. - 2008
In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the performance is now registered broadly across several types of countries-particularly the oil-exporting and resource-intensive countries and, in more recent years, the large- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772699
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Specification of Investment Functions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bayraktar, Nihal - 2016
It is a well-known fact that one of the most important determinants of growth is private investment. But in the developing country context of widespread poverty, the effects of initial conditions on the process of capital accumulation have seldom been investigated. This paper highlights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747803
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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa
Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008
Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219055
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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021
Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation, Informal Labor, and Firm Performance
Almeida, Rita - 2006
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its … impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on … smaller amount of informal employment. Furthermore, by reducing the firm's access to unregulated labor, stricter enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783604
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Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
Giné, Xavier - 2005
In the 1980's the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784977
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2011
retrenchment during the great recession. Average employment growth slowed dramatically, particularly for wage and industrial sector … on employment, unemployment, and wage employment, particularly relative to older adults. Percentage employment reductions … of the population, male employment rates also plummeted. Larger drops in male employment were primarily attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129054
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Effects of the 2008–09 Economic Crisis on Labor Markets in Mexico
Freije-Rodriguez, Samuel; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; … - 2020
The 2008-09 economic crisis has had a long-lasting negative impact on the Mexican economy. This paper examines labor market dynamics in Mexico in light of the crisis. The labor market has been characterized in recent years by low relative unemployment, but high levels of informal jobs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014099670