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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation

Kim, Yeon Soo - 2019

This paper finds that informal workers are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting with lower wages, but also with less regularity of hours and paid vacation, informal workers have higher incidence of envelope payments...

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Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...

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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger

De Weerdt, Joachim - 2017

are then used. Using a survey experiment in Tanzania, this study finds great fragility in hunger counts stemming from …

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Shorter, Cheaper, Quicker, Better : Linking Measures of Household Food Security to Nutritional Outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania

Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017

, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of …

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing - 2017

Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … Tanzania. The authors find that, relative to a no-climate-change baseline and considering domestic agricultural production as … the principal channel of impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate …

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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...

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Effectiveness of Interventions Aimed at Improving Women's Employability and Quality of Work : A Critical Review

Todd, Petra - 2017

This paper examines the effectiveness of a variety of policy interventions that have been tried in developing and transition economies with the goal of improving women's employability and quality of work. The programs include active labor market programs, education and training programs,...

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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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Can Enhancing the Benefits of Formalization Induce Informal Firms to Become Formal? Experimental Evidence from Benin

Benhassine, Najy - 2018

Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on to become formal, especially when tax registration is involved. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the...

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Glass Barriers : Constraints to Women's Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in Cambodia and Lao Pdr

Seror, Marlon Armand Remy - 2017

Trade facilitation projects often assume indirect benefits for small-scale, cross-border traders. Recent studies have shown the challenges faced in Africa by this population, especially women, but it remains unknown in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic, despite large trade...

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