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The literature has robustly documented a negative migrant-native wage gap in developed economies. Yet empirical evidence of pay differences has been elusive for developing countries. We approach this question by leveraging internationally harmonised microdata with 1.5 million individuals from 6...
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This paper examines the relationship between mobile internet, employment and structural transformation in Rwanda … dynamics and the composition of employment significantly. To demonstrate this, we have combined GSMA network coverage maps with … market in two ways. First, by increasing employment opportunities. Second, by contributing to changes in the composition of …
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Worker Program (TFWP), as well as non-status migrants employed in agriculture. It evaluates policies and measures adopted by … the intersections of precarious employment and insecure residency status, the study advances an expanded employment strain … approach to illustrate how longstanding immigration and labour laws, policies and practices, persisting alongside COVID-19 …
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, the region has become increasingly dependent on GSCs for employment despite some short periods of sharp volatility and … productivity, it also shows that a positive relationship between increased GSC participation and greater wage employment, high …-skill employment, and female employment was limited to specific sectors. Several policies could strengthen the links between GSCs and …
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This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates … and wages. Their labour market exit risk is relatively low, occupational and sectoral changes are least common and, in the …
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part-time arrangements, the repetitive nature of the job nor sector of employment. The effect of these covariates adds to …
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Job polarization was first identified in the US in the 1990s, when employment growth concentrated in the highest and … lowest wages jobs with much less growth in middle wage jobs. Research since then has identified continuing polarizing … disaggregate job growth by sector, employment contract, and sociodemographic groups. I find that the pattern of job polarization …
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