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Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen - 2018

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many-sometimes all-nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. Drawing on a broad range of historical and linguistic sources, this paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's...

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Rural roads and local economic development

Asher, Sam; Novosad, Paul - 2018

work. However, there are no major changes in consumption, assets or agricultural outcomes. Nonfarm employment in the …

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Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a gender perspective

Van den Broeck, Goedele; Kilic, Talip - 2018

, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate … individual-level off-farm (wage and self) employment participation rates; analyzes the extent and drivers of entry into off …-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …

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Nonstandard forms of employment in developing countries : a study for a set of selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

Apella, Ignacio; Zunino, Gonzalo - 2018

not any common pattern across countries. In contrast, from the point of view of the profile of nonstable employment, there … nonstandard workers are a heterogeneous group. The increase in the incidence of nonstandard employment and its heterogeneity …

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High-growth firms : rising tide lifts all boats

De Nicola, Francesca; Muraközy, Balázs; Tan, Shawn W. - 2018

How do high-growth firms affect the rest of the economy? This paper explores this question using Hungarian administrative microdata. It finds evidence of stronger productivity growth for firms supplying and operating in industries with more high-growth firms. The surge of high-growth firms'...

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The short-term impact of inter-community volunteering activities and soft skills training on self-reported social cohesion values : quasi-experimental evidence from Lebanon

Alaref, Jumana; Solano, Rene Leon; Asenjo, Carlos; … - 2019

other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …

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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019

The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2019

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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Does culture matter or firm? : demand for female labor in three Indian cities

Bordia Das, Maitreyi; Mehta, Soumya Kapoor; Žumbytė, Ieva - 2019

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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Morocco's growth and employment prospects : public policies to avoid the middle-income trap

Moreira, Emmanuel Pinto - 2019

This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … proposed growth model, which involves, in particular, promoting the transition from labor-intensive imitation activities to … inequality. The third part attempts to quantify the medium-run effects of these policies on growth, employment, and unemployment …

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