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Essays on Banking for Micro and Small Enterprises
Schrader, Jan Peter - 2009
countries after an aggregate income shock. The analysis is based on a data set in which the customer data of the microfinance … microfinance institution. The results support the hypothesis that especially transaction lending contributes to the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476239
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Analysis of the Incentive Mechanisms of Individual and Group- Microlending Contracts
Vigenina, Denitsa - 2004
borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460736
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Mandatory Works Councils in Germany: Their Effects on Productivity and Profits
Müller, Steffen - 2009
Arbeitnehmer haben in Deutschland das Recht zur Wahl von Betriebsräten. Betriebsräte haben gesetzliche Informations-, Konsultations- und Mitbestimmungsrechte. Die Effekte von Betriebsräten auf Produktivität und Gewinne von mittelgroßen Betrieben des verarbeitenden Gewerbes werden mit Daten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451164
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Risk preference and employment contract type
Farrell, Lisa; Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Sessions, … - 2006
We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475665
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Competition and the growth of non-standard employment : the case of the Australian construction industry
Toner, Phillip; Coates, Nick - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2006
Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482136
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Renaissance of entrepreneurship? : some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany
Bögehold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - 2007
The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466404
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Microfinance in the Improvement of Living Standard and GNH
Bandyopadhyay, Saugata - 2008
microfinance in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan in transforming the lives and social behaviour of the poor people of … this part of the world. This paper will try to establish the strong linkage between microfinance and capability building …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468684
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The critical success factors for commercialising microfinance instititions in Africa
Kiweu, Josephat Mboya - 2010
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Uncertainty of continued donor funding poses a risk to microfinance operations worldwide, and … thisstudy explores the circumstances under which African microfinance institutions (MFIs) will considercommercial funding as a … microfinance institutions grow, they increasingly findthemselves in need of additional capital to finance expansion of services to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442187
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The microfinance industry in Uganda : sustainability, outreach and regulation
Okumu, Luka Jovita - 2007
Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442229