This paper provides further evidence on the relationship between a firm's capital structure and its labour demand. This study estimates dynamic labour demand equations using firm-level panel data for firms in the electronics sector in Ireland for the period 1982 to 1995. These results suggest...

Using comparable data sets for five African countries, we evaluate possible explanations for the employer-size wage effect across these countries. Our results indicate that, apart from observable worker characteristics, most theories cannot explain very much of the wage premium received in...

In a competitive model we ease the assumption that efficiency units of labour are the product of hours and workers. We show that a minimum wage may either increase or decrease hours per worker and the change will have the opposite sign to the slope of the equilibrium hours hourly wage locus....

We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...

We examine the distributional impact of large dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a hydrology based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to exactly define regions in terms of their upstream/downstream relationship at a highly disaggregated level....

We examine Africa’s increasing reliance on hydropower in light of climate change induced variations in rainfall and the potential power outages that may result. We use a continent wide riverflow model and IPPC climate change scenarios and show that current plans for African dam building are...

We study how a donor can use restricted transfers to control the moral hazard behavior of a recipient and how the composition of unrestricted and restricted transfers is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. Under certain conditions, our game-theoretic...