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Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …
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a wage premium. The authors review the literature and use data from a survey of higher education graduates in Vietnam …
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Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
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The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure Surveys and cross-survey imputation methods. With only two rounds of Household Expenditure Survey data for Morocco (2001 and 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates...
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Some critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from a sample of 400 companies in the world, Chong and López-de-Silanes test competing theories about the wisdom of...
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markets, Vietnam is coming to play an important role in this global industry. The recent influx of foreign investors, driven … building. This paper situates Vietnam in the global information and communications technology industry, and identifies several …. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations and forward-looking statements aimed at helping Vietnam move into …
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in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled … significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in …
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With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …
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of the latest Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010, 2012, and 2014 and gridded weather data from the Climate … wages remain important income sources in rural Vietnam—especially for poorer households; (ii) rural communes are exposed to …
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