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Informal–formal workers’ transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysisFrom the book: The Job Ladder
Regression analysis Employment Formal and informalWorking Paper
Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in MozambiqueInternal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country...
Internal migration Migration MozambiqueWorking Paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionWorking Paper
A fiscal approach to the social contract in sub-Saharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governanceThe COVID-19 pandemic showed that many developing countries could not respond effectively to crises due to their limited capacity to diversify their social protection responses...
Tax compliance Governance Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–2018...
Income inequality Taxation Regression analysisWorking Paper
Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their driversThis paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015...
Ecological footprint Input–output Raw materialsBook Chapter
Informal-formal workers' transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysisThis study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers’ livelihoods and analyses workers’ transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment...
Regression analysis Employment Formal and informalWorking Paper
The recentered influence function and unidimensional poverty measurementI discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between distributions (regression-based decomposition into composition and income structure effects)...
Poverty Recentered influence function DecompositionWorking Paper
Digital technology and productivity of informal enterprises: Empirical evidence from NigeriaThe lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the short to medium term to boost the output and incomes of individuals and enterprises in the informal sector, given the size and persi...
Information technology Informal sector ProductivityWorking Paper
Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban TanzaniaThis paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey—the Integrated Labour Force Survey—and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urba...
Labour force participation Formal Regression analysisWorking Paper
The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparisonThis study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey...
leisure household composition Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Vulnerable employment of Egyptian, Jordanian, and Tunisian youth: Trends and determinantsYouths in the Middle East and North Africa face the highest unemployment rates in the world. Those who are employed are pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits...
Vulnerable employment Informality Youth unemploymentWorking Paper
Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?: An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the worldHow has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health...
COVID-19 Healthcare Healthcare expenditureWorking Paper
Informal–formal workers' transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysisThis study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers’ livelihoods and analyses workers’ transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment...
Regression analysis Employment Formal and informalResearch Brief
Firms with high-growth episodes in South Africa: Are they persistently high-growth firms?The analysis of firm growth has been a topic of consistent economic interest as a growing body of literature has lent support to the possibility that the majority of growth and new employment creation is the result of a small sub-sector of high-growt...
Firm growth High-growth firms Regression analysisJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic development