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The paper examines the impact of stock market liberalisation on four industry-level economic variables, i) growth in real value added, ii) growth in real wages per worker, iii) growth in the number of employees and iv) growth in the number of firms using data on 18 developing countries for the...
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In economics destitution is traditionally interpreted as a product of labour market exclusion. Our work departs from the dominant models of poverty by considering destitution among a specific category of workers known as the working poor. Low wages and job insecurity in the informal sector in...
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Sex workers receive a price premium for unprotected sex. Research has inferred that the source of this premium is a compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a simple model that incorporates both STI risk and...
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consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
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changes in consumption in Ghana in the 1990s. It is argued that household consumption can act as an opportunity measure of … averages of welfare change are presented. In Ghana is has been argued that poverty fell based on a consumption measure of …. Doing this for Ghana over the period of the 1990s reveals that while on average per capita consumption rose across all …
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consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605176
survey from Ghana, we find that on average if children had all sisters (and no brothers) they would do roughly 25-40% better …
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This article analyzes the determinants of literacy and earnings in Ghana. It links literacy and earnings with a variety …
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randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …
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producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise …
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