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"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify … destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills and pay higher wages than firms that export to middle … exports and export destinations brought about by this devaluation in a major export partner to identify the causal effect of …
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around USD 15 billion in export value in 2010, the readymade garment industry is currently Bangladesh's most important …
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"Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid 1990s. Contrary to the trend in the distribution of total income inequality, there has been an improvement in the distribution of earnings inequality since 1996. This paper shows...
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-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge. Export performance is analyzed along three dimensions that …, together, give a fairly comprehensive picture of competitiveness: 1) the composition, orientation and growth of the export … basket; 2) the degree of export diversification across products and markets; and 3) the level of sophistication and quality …
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-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge. Export performance is analyzed along three dimensions that …, together, give a fairly comprehensive picture of competitiveness: 1) the composition, orientation and growth of the export … basket; 2) the degree of export diversification across products and markets; and 3) the level of sophistication and quality …
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livelihoods are largely dependent on the production and export of raw agricultural commodities such as coffee, cocoa, and cotton … into higher-value, non-traditional exports is seen today as a priority for most of these countries. Some African countries … theme of "Agricultural Trade Facilitation and Non-Traditional Agricultural Export Development in Sub-Saharan Africa." This …
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The biggest challenge in terms of jobs in Central America is to create better conditions to stimulate more productive job creation in the context of a rapidly growing labor force. Overcoming this challenge will contribute to reducing poverty, inequality and social exclusion which are so...
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