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Financial inclusion through Digital Financial Services (DFS): A study in Uganda
Ebong, Jimmy; George, Babu - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-18
This study unravels trends and momentum in banking and mobile money channels and uptake of select services and thereafter draws implications for enhancing financial inclusion through Digital Financial Services (DFS). The Rate of Change (ROC) approach was applied to analyze the growth momentum in...
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Banking in Africa: financing transformation amid uncertainty
2020
In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa's banking sectors and the policy options for … banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic chapters address challenges and opportunities for financing investment in … Africa: - Investing sustainably in Africa's cities; - Mobilising agricultural value chain financing in Africa: why and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511365
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Native-immigrant wage differentials in Germany: Assimilation, discrimination, or human capital?
Lang, Günter - 2000
capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … individually diverging efficiency ratios are not well understood, with discrimination only found for ethnic Germans from Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291717
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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital
Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008
In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292119
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Elimination of gender-related employment disparities through statistical process control
Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2008
This paper proposes a novel approach that has the potential to hasten the eradication of gender disparities in employment. This approach relies upon the concept of statistical process control (SPC) to more systematically remedy disparate employment outcomes for women. SPC also serves as a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292277
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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When do they Arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292692
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Rhetoric in economic research: The case of gender wage differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a neutral or a judgmental way? How convincing must results be so that authors call for significant policy changes?...
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The silver lining of red tape
Davies, Ronald B. - 2010
achieve de-facto discrimination. Key to this result is firm heterogeneity since, although the red tape cost is constant across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292835
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Firm-level monopsony and the gender pay gap
Webber, Douglas A. - 2013
Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply elasticities is driven by across firm sorting rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293127
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions: When do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293133