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Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Age and Education in the Russian Labour Market Equation

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - 2017

This paper deals with age and educational dimensions of the labour supply in Russia and explores two time periods: from … data on educational achievement we forecast the employment composition up to 2030. If recent past changes in both age and …

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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and across occupations. Because occupations typically expand by hiring …

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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003

Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

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What Makes an Employer?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...

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The impact of population aging on the labor market: the case of Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka's population is predicted to age very fast during the next 50 years, bringing a slowdown of labor force … old age: (i) previous employment is the most important predictor of the retirement pathway; (ii) older workers fall into … work until very old age (or death) due to poverty and who stop working primarily because of poor health; and (iii) the …

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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004

and male prime-age workers. Conversely, the effect is very weak for women and insignificant for older workers …

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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2013

Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the...

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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...

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