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, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on …
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youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …. However, two to six months after the training, the employment effect of the program drops to zero. A third of the placed …
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We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...
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uses meta regression models to analyse systematic patterns in the data. In addition to analysing earnings and employment … types of interventions. Moreover, when looking at the sample of training programmes alone, we observe that formal employment …
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This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...
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Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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studies that explore socioeconomic effects, and those available have emphasized employment access. There are almost no studies …
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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
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One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has found that financial development increases economic growth, increases the income of the poor, and...
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The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact of such employment guarantee schemes in the context of an agrarian … examine labor and output market responses to a productive rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and determine the optimal …
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