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West Bank and Gaza - Gaza Emergency Cash for Work and Self-Employment Support Project (Английский)

Ratings for the Gaza Emergency Cash for Work and Self-Employment Support Project for West Bank and Gaza were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring...

Report : Long-term Evaluation of Atencion a Crisis Interventions (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annex : Tables with Preminary Results (Английский)

In recent years, there has been renewed attention on policies to enhance the income generating capacity and productivity of the poor (World Bank, 2012). Since both skills and capital can limit productive...

Capital and labor : the factor income composition of top incomes in the United States, 1962-2006 (Английский)

This paper finds that capital and labor incomes in the United States have become more closely associated since the 1980s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total...

Bridging the gender gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo (Английский)

Quantile decomposition methods are used to study the determinants of the gender gap in self-employment earnings across the earnings distribution of four Sub-Saharan countries: the Republic of Congo, Ghana...

Bridging the gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, and Uganda (Английский)

Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold? (Английский)

The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of...

Household expenditure surveys : some methodological issues (Английский)

This working paper (which comprises two parts) is concerned with several methodological aspects of collecting information on household expenditures. Three issues are discussed in the first part: (1) the...

On estimating earnings functions for LDC's (Английский)

A technique is developed for estimating earnings functions from data in which both wage earners and self-employed persons are included. The model analyzes labor earnings in a competitive market where self-employment...