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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...
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have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employment is of much lower quality, characterized … downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans … that measures that allow Venezuelans to obtain employment that matches their skills, such as facilitating the conversion of …
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Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …
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employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in … percent of the industrial employment gap individually …
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