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moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. Although the employment share in … manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries the employment share in manufacturing has not … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
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From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was...
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employment accessibility in Nairobi, Kenya and evaluates whether modification of land use patterns can contribute to increases in …
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influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …
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. Furthermore, among the unemployed, the probability of moving into informal employment is found to be significantly larger for … labor market outcomes. More attention to designing programs that are incentive-compatible with formal employment would be a …
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This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are …, there are large net shifts from non-professional own-account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income …
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For a sample of 53 developing countries, the results show that women's employment among private firms is significantly …
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In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008?13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty....
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openness to experience and emotional stability?is only correlated with employment, and only when using the structural latent …
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This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in Brazil?s child labor law of December 1998. The change increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16 years. The analysis uses a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact of this change in the...
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