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Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and...
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This paper develops a theoretical framework that expands the task-based models of technical progress and labor markets to allow for firm heterogeneity and wages that vary across firms. The model is compatible with the empirical observation that more productive firms are larger, are more skill...
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Private investment can be an important engine of economic growth in East African countries, which, despite recent growth rates, are still plagued with adverse economic conditions. Against this backdrop, there has been substantial penetration of mobile money, moving beyond simple person-to-person...
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This paper aims to investigate empirically how international migration and remittances in Indonesia, particularly … female migration, affect child outcomes and labor supply behavior in sending households. The authors analyze the Indonesia … instruments for migration and remittance receipts. The study finds that, in Indonesia, the impacts of international migration on …
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Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …
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the long-run impact of the Village Midwife Program in Indonesia. It utilizes the roll-out-variation of the program and …
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Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...
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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
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Using manufacturing plant-level census data, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases in Indonesia reduced … gender wage gaps among production workers, with heterogeneous impacts by level of education and position of the firm in the … exacerbated gender pay gaps among the least educated, and reduced gender gaps among the best educated production workers …
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