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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-11)This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual’s mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)Past population dynamics in Africa have remained largely elusive due to the lack of demographic data. Researchers are understandably deterred from trying to explain what is not known and African historical population ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-05)Recent years have seen a significant improvement in the economic performance of some African countries. The resulting increased dispersion in income levels across Africa, combined with the pertinence of detecting regional ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-07)This paper examines the effect that a country’s business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-12)We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will be in the formal sector and pay a wage premium, while ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2008-04)We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the ...
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The flexibility of Northern Ireland Unionists and Afrikaner Nationalists in comparative perspective (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)A common feature of comparisons of Northern Ireland and South Africa prior to South Africa's transition and the Northern Ireland peace process was the siege mentality of the dominant communities in the two societies. The ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)This paper is a reflection on an underlying moral dynamic of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), namely inclusive moral remembrance. The TRC strove to provide an inclusive forum for many of those ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...