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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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Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...
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Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors …' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …
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Differences in management quality are an important contributor to productivity differences across countries. A key question is how to best improve poor management in developing countries. This paper tests two different approaches to improving management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first...
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...
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in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards …
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estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …
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This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision,...
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In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated … representative firm data that covers the formal and informal economy to investigate the impact of agglomerative forces on employment … employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing, finding that there is no evidence that population density is associated with faster …
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restrictions. Can temporary trade restrictions have long-lasting effects on the spatial distribution of employment and resource … advantage of panel data and estimates the effects on structural change in employment on the non-Abidjan route using a triple … change in favor of manufacturing and services employment in the non-Abidjan route. This paper finds evidence of persistence …
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