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We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...
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The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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in the working-age population: early 32 percent of Tunisian youth were "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" (NEET … paper aims to shed light on the main obstacles to creating sufficient employment and addressing labor market distortions in …
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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment. There is very little research about the …
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unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
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with the design of employment contracts. -- job satisfaction ; heterogeneity ; employment contract ; generalized ordered …
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Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general … higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
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