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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …

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Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes across Geopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension … using survey data from Nigeria between 1996-1999. Both descriptive and econometric analysis are used to test the null … hypothesis that there are no significant regional differences in labor market outcomes in Nigeria. The results are surprising …

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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

these claims at the micro level. In this study, I focus on Nigeria a country that holds 1/5 of Africa’s population. I use … the changes in demand for education in Nigeria and the increased emigration rates from African countries that …

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...

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The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We use two different measures to identify the gender...

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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...

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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...

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