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a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality and provide important inputs for the formulation of …
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Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle frequency and in a cross-section of countries, and that the Okun's coefficient falls with the...
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that rural children struggled to continue learning during school closures. Gender-sensitive policies are needed to narrow …
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.6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than …
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individual level panel data from the Quarterly Labor Force Survey. While prior work experience and gender are found to be … important determinants of the job-finding rate, education attainment and race are important determinants of the job-exit rate …
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Labor market indicators are critical for policymakers, but measurement error in labor force survey data is known to be substantial. In this paper, I quantify the implications of classification errors in the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), in which respondents misreport their true labor...
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partly explained by observable individual characteristics (gender, marital status, age, et cetera), and that educational …The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make …/downward educational and occupational mobility across and within African countries, and the gender and rural/urban divide. Additionally, we …
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Through the 2000s, Korea's export and import linkages to advanced and emerging markets increased significantly. At the same time, the correlation of output growth between Korea and these economies rose. This paper investigates the nature of the link between trade linkages and the comovement of...
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's success story, highlighting crucial policies in education and electricity sectors. It undertakes a forward-looking costing … exercise that focusses on five sectors - education, health, roads, water, and electricity infrastructure. Achieving the …
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from countries with stronger labor protection. Workers with positive perceptions of automation also tend to respond that re-education …
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