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research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate … workers. This paper presents the results from a gift-exchange game experiment in Ghana in which the worker can make a promise …
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The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We …
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Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering … and time in Ghana. Individuals who completed any formal education were also much less likely to participate in adult …
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Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
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purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complimentarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …
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, draws on the FinMark national-level data from Ghana and South Africa. The main observation is that females in South Africa … are more likely to use general financial and investment products than in Ghana. The results also reveal that in Ghana, a …
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on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay …-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major metropolitan centres to a standstill …
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro …
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There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …
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