2010 - 2015: Praktika im GIZ-Sektorvorhaben “Finanzsystementwicklung” (2015, Eschborn, Deutschland) und im GIZ-Vorhaben "Stärkung wirtschafts- und handelspolitischer Kompetenzen und Kapazitäten in SADC" (2014, Gaborone, Botsuana), sowie im Asienhaus (2010, Essen, Deutschland) und London International Development Centre (2013, London, UK)
2011 - 2013: Studentische/wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungsökonomik (Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD)
2012: Tutorin im studentisch organisierten Seminar "Homo oeconomicus" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
2010 - 2012: Studentische/wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungsökonomik und Internationale Wirtschaft (Prof. Dreher), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Studium: Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ethnologie an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (BA) und Universität Uppsala; Studium Finance and Development an der SOAS, University of London (MSc); Studium International Economics mit dem Schwerpunkt Entwicklungsökonomik an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (MA)
Aktuelle Forschung
Employment in African Economies
Rigorous Impact Evaluations
Firms and Investment
Länder und Regionen
Afrika
Côte d'Ivoire
Uganda
Dissertation
Small-scale Entrepreneurship and Informal Employment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Informal, low-quality employment in MSMEs remains a key challenge in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence from an RCT in Côte d’Ivoire shows that a light-touch business consulting program increased formal employment through better minimum wage compliance and more written contracts.
Greenfield FDI can support job creation in Africa, but its full impact is unclear. Using new data from 2013–2020, we find more projects than previously reported. While FDI boosts formal jobs in some sectors, its overall impact is modest and may even crowd out domestic employment.
How effective are skills training programs in sub-Saharan Africa at improving participants’ skills, employment perspectives and income? This systematic review analyses recent, randomized studies conducted between 2019 and 2024, painting a slightly more optimistic picture than earlier studies.
Kann Consulting für Kleinunternehmen in Entwicklungsländern Produktivität fördern und Beschäftigung verbessern? Unsere rigorose Wirkungsmessung in Côte d'Ivoire zeigt, dass ein Consulting-Programm zwar kaum Effekte auf Management und Unternehmenserfolg hatte, aber die Beschäftigungsqualität erhöhte.
With the African population expected to double by 2050, 20 million new jobs are needed annually. The increasing importance of employment creation led the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to establish the Special Initiative “Decent Work for a Just Transition“. The GIGA offers research support and advice to this initiative. BMZ, 2019-2025
Small firms play an important role in many developing contries. This project empirically analyses the performance and dynamics of urban micro and small enterprises [MSEs] and studies specific risks and constraints that these enterprises face. The quantitative analyses are informed by own panel survey data from Uganda. GIGA, 2015-2018
CSAE Conference 2024: Economic Development in Africa, Oxford
Organisation: Centre for the Study of African Economies, Social Science Division, University of Oxford
Tabea Lakemann (Vortragende:r), Dr. Bernd Beber (Vortragende:r)
The RéUsSITE team presented the results of its impacts evaluation at the conference of the Centre for the Study of African Economies in Oxford.
