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Reforming Health Care : A Case for Stay-Well Health Insurance

Bogetic, Zeljko; Heffley, Dennis R. - 2011

Many health care reform proposals expand insurance coverage without fundamentally changing the structure of health insurance. The stay-well plan used in Mendocino County, California, since 1979, offers an alternative insurance structure that provides direct incentives for consumers to control...

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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries

Cho, Yoonyoung - 2011

This paper examines how different types of workers in seventeen middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Average employment growth slowed dramatically, particularly for wage and industrial sector workers, with corresponding increases in...

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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,...

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The Republic of Korea's Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Their Support Systems

Fay, Marianne - 2017

for the Republic of Korea's small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs. Their report draws on a survey of … 122 SMEs that make woven textiles (42 firms), auto parts (20 firms), electronic parts (20 firms), and factory …-automation products (40 firms). Although Korea has a dense network of public technology-support institutions, Korean SMEs tend to turn to …

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Corruption, the Business Environment, and Small Business Growth in India

Mengistae, Taye - 2016

This paper estimates a dynamic business growth equation on a sample of small-scale manufacturers. The results suggest that excessive labor regulation, power shortages, and problems of access to finance are significant influences on industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth...

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African Small and Medium Enterprises, Networks, and Manufacturing Performance

Biggs, Tyler S. - 2016

and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal … for market participation of outsiders, such as indigenous African SMEs. This is indicated through the determinants of …

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Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Africa : New Empirical Evidence

Nagler, Paula - 2020

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about them. The motivation for households to operate enterprises, how productive they are, and why they exit the market are neglected questions. Drawing on the Living Standards Measurement Study --...

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Sae : A Stata Package for Unit Level Small Area Estimation

Nguyen, Minh - 2018

This paper presents a new family of Stata functions devoted to small area estimation. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areas/sub-populations. This is accomplished by incorporating information from outside...

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Taking Management Digital : Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman - 2018

In many aid projects, monitoring and evaluation is a static exercise driven by donor reporting requirements. After project closure, there are seldom sustainable benefits of the monitoring and evaluation system. This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation can be transformed into a dynamic...

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How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System? Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Campos, Francisco - 2018

Developing country governments seek to reduce the pervasive informality of firms for multiple reasons: increasing the tax base, helping firms access formal markets and grow, increasing the rule of law, and as a means to obtain data that can be used for other government functions. However, there...

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