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Labour Market Power, Self-employment, and Development

This paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development.

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15 Apr 2023

Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks

Female-owned businesses continue to be smaller and less profitable than male-owned firms. We conduct an RCT in Ghana on a sample of 1,771 growth-oriented female entrepreneurs to investigate the effect of online networking groups on firm performance.

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12 Apr 2023

Women’s Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh

It is established that entering employment improves a woman’s bargaining position in the household. This paper investigates whether a woman’s career advancement further improves her intra-household bargaining power.

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1 Mar 2023

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it?

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27 Feb 2023

An Investigation into Product Market Integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

This study examines the extent of market integration within the West African sub-region using the theory of “law of one price”. The dataset covers three countries: Nigeria, Benin and Togo accounting for about three quarters of the sub-region economy.

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23 Feb 2023

Business incubators and entrepreneurship development in Africa’s innovation systems: a bibliometric review

Business incubators are a policy tool for spurring and supporting entrepreneurial businesses. In recent years, many African countries have established many of them.

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9 Feb 2023

Matching with the Right Attitude: the Effect of Matching Firms with Refugee Workers

How to integrate disadvantaged workers such as immigrants and refugees into host-country labor markets is a pressing global question.

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3 Feb 2023

Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

The rise of China in the global economy has been linked with negative impacts on employment across many high and middle-income countries. However, evidence for African countries is limited.

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25 Jan 2023

Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa

This paper analyzes the relationship between inward FDI and structural transformation of local labour markets in Africa.

Working Paper
23 Jan 2023

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