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Minimum wages in Kenya
Andalón, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … were positively associated with wages of low-educated workers and women in non-agricultural activities, while no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269259
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Kids or courses? Gender differences in the effects of active labor market policies
Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2007
may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268233
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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268285
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Effectiveness of further vocational training in Germany: Empirical findings for persons receiving means-tested unemployment benefit
Bernhard, Sarah; Kruppe, Thomas - 2012
Further vocational training for the unemployed aims at enhancing their job prospects. This paper analyses the effectiveness of such subsidized training programmes for means-tested unemployment benefit recipients in Germany. The empirical findings are based on rich administrative data of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323820
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality: The case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
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Savings constraints and microenterprise development: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily income earners (such as market vendors), and collected a unique dataset … no interest and featured substantial withdrawal fees, take-up and usage was high among women. In addition, we find that … the savings accounts had substantial, positive impacts on productive investment levels and expenditures for women, but had …
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Heterogeneity in bank responsiveness to policy and economic shocks: The role of capitalization
Kimundi, Gillian - 2024
shifts in monetary policy, economic shocks and contextspecific events in interbank liquidity flow in Kenya call for a revisit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547695
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Implications of macroeconomic stabilization policies on financial intermediation
Kimani, Stephanie - 2024
Effective policies to stabilize macroeconomic conditions are essential for economic growth. In the context of this study, policymakers pursue these macroeconomic stability objectives by adjusting fiscal and monetary policy. The study used impulse response functions (IRFs) derived from vector...
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600911