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This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the...
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employment, and female to male ratio have negative impact on GDP per capita in developing countries. Based on these results and … that export led trade policy and provision of equal opportunities to both male and female in education and employment …
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This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the...
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic … growth. The combined "costs" of education and employment gaps in the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia amount …
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. The study investigates gender gaps in the labor market participation rate, employment conditions, and the use of time … employability, and enable them to secure employment. Overall, this study contributes to the debate on how better to manage the …
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, and social unrest. This jobs diagnostic first analyses the employment situation in Kenya, where the majority of the … population works in the agriculture and services sectors. Agriculture has the lowest quality of employment. There is large … heterogeneity in the quality of employment within the services sectors, with the education, health, and social security subsector …
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