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Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas; Tarp, Finn; Thiep, Do Huy; Tuan, … - 2016
Nam but not in the north. Administrative land consolidation programmes have some positive impact on land consolidation in …
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Rent sharing, wage floors, and development
Budlender, Joshua; Bassier, Ihsaan - 2023
Faced with more favourable demand conditions, many firms raise wages. However, we show that firms with labour market power, lower productivity, and binding wage floors will absorb these positive revenue productivity shocks as excess profits instead of increasing wages or employment. Our...
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Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity : firm-level evidence across geographical clusters in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sector
Saha, Amrita; Castro, André; Carreras, Marco; Guariso, … - 2020
Trade-linked technological change has potential to increase incomes in low-income countries (LICs). The most labour-intensive segments of the textiles and apparel global value chain are in LICs. However, gaps between available technologies and best practices make it difficult to adopt more...
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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … reform. Media reports suggested that consolidation led to declining enrolment levels and teacher lay-offs. Combining the … government orders on consolidation and administrative data on schools, I rule-out that consolidation had a negative impact on …
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Identifying structural changes in the exchange rates of South Africa as a regime-switching process
Makatjane, Katleho; Van Wyk, Roscoe Bertrum - 2020
Exchange rate volatility is said to exemplify the economic health of a country. Exchange rate break points (known as structural breaks) have a momentous impact on the macroeconomy of a country. Nonetheless, this country study makes use of both unsupervised and supervised machine learning...
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The ethnographic approach to social mobility
Vaid, Divya - 2020
The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...
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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies
Clark, Gregory - 2020
In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...
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Concepts of social mobility
Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...
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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys
Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018
This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status across six new harmonized surveys from three Arab countries: Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals'...
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Innovation efforts in developing countries : the case of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises
Son Thi Kim Le - 2019
The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates innovation processes in developing countries,...
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