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Growth and Job Creation in Uzbekistan : A In-depth Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2018

employment. This new analysis was possible by applying the growth decomposition tool to new data disaggregated by sectors of the … economy and new data on constraints to productivity and employment growth generated by the three enterprise surveys conducted …

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Informal employment and worker's well-being in the Russian Federation

Kim, Yeon Soo; Matycin, Michail Ja.; Freije, Samuel - 2019

between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …

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Creating Markets in Morocco : A Second Generation of Reforms - Boosting Private Sector Growth, Job Creation and Skills Upgrading

International Finance Corporation - 2019

Morocco has steered significant resources towards large investments in economic sectors identified as strategic to growth, and for increased productivity and value addition. Despite Morocco's strikingly high investment rate, one of the highest in the world at an average of thirty-four percent of...

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Serbia's New Growth Agenda : Labor Market for Growth

Nguyen, Trang - 2020

Union (EU). Robust growth in employment will require a comprehensive agenda: boosting private sector job creation on the … performance and on skills and labor market policies to support inclusive growth. Employment in Serbia's formal private sector is …. Improving skills and reforming labor market policies can boost both employment and productivity. This note's focus on skills and …

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Growth and Jobs in Slavonia, Baranja, and Srijem : Rapid Diagnostics

World Bank Group - 2019

Slavonia's economy is now amongst the poorest in the European Union (EU) and has been growing more slowly than comparable regions. Some Polish and Romanian counties were less advanced until 2013 but have now overtaken Slavonia. Achieving a turnaround is difficult: only 9 percent of lagging...

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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations

Basu, Kaushik - 2016

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and iverse manifestations. This paper contends that there is however a structural shift beneath the global economy that is now reaching a critical mass, and that accounts for many of these crises, despite...

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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America

Artuç, Erhan - 2014

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hondu

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Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?

World Bank - 2017

The strong economic growth enjoyed by the Dominican Republic following its 2003 domestic crisis was not matched by similarly substantial progress in poverty reduction. While labor productivity grew by an estimated 39 percent between 2000 and 2013, real wages fell with the crisis in 2003/04, and,...

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What aspects of formality do workers value? : evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh

Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2020

heterogeneity in WTP by type of employment and gender: women value shorter working hours more than men, while government workers …

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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers : evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh

Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2019

After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an increased...

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