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Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025

This article reviews quantitative research on unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the … specific situation in Sub-Saharan Africa influences unionization and collective bargaining. The informal sector, ethnic divide … and globalization entail serious threats to workers' unionization. The increasing influence of China and neoliberal policy …

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Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Gradstein, Mark; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2022

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world. Causal inference is enabled through proxying income windfalls by oil price shocks in oil rich versus oil poor provinces. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find...

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Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2022

We use high frequency phone survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by gender, family composition, education, age, pre-COVID-19...

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Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023

estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The …

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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near … historical ethnic borders in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023

Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial … work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023

), have been studied relatively less, especially in Africa which remains the most vulnerable continent to CC. We focus on Lake …. For Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger – 25% of sub-Saharan Africa's population –, we construct a novel data set tracking …

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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2013

unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …

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Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal

Arcand, Jean-Louis L.; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - 2013

This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time...

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The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward

Naudé, Wim - 2024

This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) that was launched in 2024. These flaws limit the usefulness of the AEEI. Moreover, given that the both the notions of entrepreneurial ecosystems and composite indices...

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