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Family Firms and Contractual Institutions
Iacovone, Leo - 2019
This paper offers new evidence on the relationship between contractual institutions, family management, and aggregate performance. The study creates a new firm-level database on management and ownership structures spanning 134 regions in 11 European countries. To guide the empirical analysis, it...
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Triggers of Contract Breach : Contract Design, Shocks, or Institutions?
Nose, Manabu - 2017
contracts. Similar to the case of outright expropriation, political regime type is an important determinant of breach of … contract. Furthermore, although investors' bargaining power becomes obsolete as contracts mature, contracts can be designed to … effects, less-democratic and resource-dependent governments are more likely to breach contracts, especially after large global …
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Cooperation and Reciprocity in Carbon Sequestration Contracts
Salas, Paula Cordero - 2017
contracts. The optimal contract is derived as a result of the optimizing actions of purely self-interested agents, and agents … contracts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation …
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Quality Contingent Contracts : Evidence from Tanzania's Coffee Market
Mahdi, Shireen - 2017
production practices. Three contract types are studied: spot contracts, contingent contracts with product grading and contingent … contracts without product grading. To do this, the study uses original data from a survey of 450 coffee producers in Tanzania … contracts that include village-based product grading have a large positive effect on producer incomes, and that the grading …
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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other countries. This is a cause for concern because internal migration for economic reasons can promote the agglomeration of economic activity in more productive locations and...
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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Once NEET, Always NEET? A Synthetic Panel Approach to Analyze the Moroccan Labor Market
Alfani, Federica - 2020
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844584
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Regional Labor Market Developments in Transition
Huber, Peter - 2006
The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779242
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Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum Tefera - 2017
Do matching frictions affect youth employment in developing countries? This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The job fairs match firms with a representative sample of young, educated job-seekers. The meetings at the fairs create very few jobs:...
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