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Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2023

The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on female unemployment levels. The study focuses on 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is...

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Microfinance institutions and female entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa : avoidable female unemployment thresholds

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

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Female unemployment and economic growth in Cameroon : an estimation of a nonlinear Okun's law specification by the ARDL cointegration model

Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

women's led business and improve the business environment in order to stimulate private investment (private sector support … the willingness and ability of firms to hire women. These measures should actually address the weak capacity of the public … sector to create enough jobs to mitigate the severity of women's unemployment. …

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Microfinance institutions and female entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa : avoidable female unemployment thresholds

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

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Female unemployment and the procedure that a woman has to go through to start a business : microfinance policy thresholds

Asongu, Simplice - 2023

quantiles of the conditional distribution of the procedure women have to go through to start a business. MFI penetration levels …

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Fighting female unemployment : the role of female ownership of bank accounts in complementing female inclusive education

Asongu, Simplice - 2024

The purpose of the study is to assess if a policy of female inclusive education should be complemented with a policy of female ownership of bank accounts to fight female unemployment. The study therefore examines how female ownership of bank accounts moderates the incidence of female education...

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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers

Rosholm, Michael - 2014

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...

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A Danish profiling system

Rosholm, Michael (contributor); Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2004

We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker during his or her first six months in unemployment enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or she will be unemployed for more than six months from that...

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To meet or not to meet, that is the question : short-run effects of high-frequency meetings with case workers

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kjærsgaard, Lene; Rosholm, Michael - 2014

We investigate the effects of meetings between the unemployed and their case workers on the transition rate from unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive effects of meetings. The transition rate strongly...

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The impact of active labour market policy on post-unemployment outcomes : evidence from a social experiment in Denmark

Blasco, Sylvie; Rosholm, Michael - 2011

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