Sebastian Prediger
German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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International Labour Review | 2015
Martin Ostermeier; Sarah Linde; Jann Lay; Sebastian Prediger
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the design of a post-2015 development framework by proposing indicators to monitor employment outcomes. Our analysis of the current MDG employment indicators shows that measurement problems, the inappropriate use of aggregate statistics, ambiguous interpretability, and assumptions that often do not hold true in the context of developing countries are major shortcomings of the current indicators. Based on this critique, we develop a new set of indicators for productive employment and decent work. We propose four indicators: (i) the growth of labor value added per worker, (ii) the working poverty rate, (iii) (a) the share of workers receiving less than an absolute labor income and (b) the share of workers receiving less than 60 percent of the median labor income. We demonstrate the empirical application of these indicators using the country cases of Uganda and Peru.
Journal of Economic Surveys | 2018
Matthias Basedau; Simone Gobien; Sebastian Prediger
Religion plays a fundamental role in most peoples lives with profound implications for socioeconomic development. This survey provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the causal mechanisms between religion and development discussed and tested in the economics literature, and reviews quantitative empirical evidence on the actual effects of religion on economic and social dimensions of development. We start by disaggregating the concept of religion into four religious dimensions and propose a framework to conceptualize causal mechanisms. Numerous mechanisms are possible but only a few uncontested findings exist. Religion is ambivalent vis‐a‐vis development: although religious ideas can foster certain forms of human capital acquisition and labor market participation, scholars have found a negative relationship between religious dimensions and both income and gender equality as well as innovation activities. Religious identity is also a source of labor market discrimination and has ambivalent effects on economic growth and social cohesion. Methodological challenges refer to the availability of fine‐grained data, especially for developing countries, the use of concepts and definitions, and the lack of causal inference.
Archive | 2013
Sebastian Prediger; Bjoern Vollan; Benedikt Herrmann
Ecological Economics | 2011
Sebastian Prediger; Björn Vollan; Markus Frölich
Journal of Public Economics | 2014
Sebastian Prediger; Björn Vollan; Benedikt Herrmann
Ecological Economics | 2013
Björn Vollan; Sebastian Prediger; Markus Frölich
MAGKS Papers on Economics | 2011
Sebastian Prediger
Social Science Research Network | 2017
Matthias Basedau; Simone Gobien; Sebastian Prediger
Meinungsforum Entwicklungspolitik | 2013
Jann Lay; Sebastian Prediger
GIGA Focus Global, 10. 8 S.. ISSN 1862-3581 | 2012
Martin Ostermeier; Lena Giesbert; Jann Lay; Sebastian Prediger