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The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Building Skills in Uganda
Lang, Megan; Seither, Julia - 2022
In contexts where women have few opportunities for wage work, entrepreneurship may be one of the only avenues for economic inclusion. However, women-owned businesses are often less profitable than their male-owned counterparts, and many micro-enterprises do not grow. Can removing skills-based...
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Skills, partnerships and tenancy in Sri Lankan rice farms
DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2000
This paper examines whether sharecroppers and fixed-rent tenants in the rice farms of South Asia are distinguished by their farming skills. The idea that fixed-rent contracts are typically given to relatively skilled tenants dates back to the agricultural (tenancy) ladder hypothesis of Spillman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610895
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Skills, partnerships and tenancy in Sri Lankan rice farms
DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001537374
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In search of a better match : qualification mismatches in developing Asia
Chua, Kenn; Chun, Natalie - 2016
This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeducation in less developed labor markets are more pervasive than in more developed economies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655864
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520525
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Marriage market equilibrium, qualifications, and ability
Anderberg, Dan; Bagger, Jesper; Bhaskar, Varsha; … - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990019
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Marriage market equilibrium, qualifications, and ability
Anderberg, Dan; Bagger, Jesper; Bhaskar, V.; Wilson, Tanya - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992448
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Screening and Signaling Non-Cognitive Skills : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Bassi, Vittorio - 2020
this affects matching in the labor market. To do so, we experimentally vary whether certificates on workers' non … upwards. The two-sided reaction in terms of beliefs leads to an increase in positive assortative matching and to higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851109
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In Search of a Better Match : Qualification Mismatches in Developing Asia
Chua, Kenn - 2016
This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeducation in less developed labor markets are more pervasive than in more developed economies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986594
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528414