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to be major constraints to youth employment, but macro and structural constraints to job creation are not assessed in the … address the youth employment challenge …
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In our rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their city's labor market and a threat to its development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this study finds that migrants, being younger, better educated and/or...
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This paper aims to provide a framework for conducting public sector employment and compensation assessments that can …
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A better policy framework for preventing, managing, and helping people recover from crises is crucial to lifting long-term growth and livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The need for this policy framework has never been more urgent as the region faces the monumental task of...
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Despite a policy consensus that closing gender employment gaps will boost economic growth, relatively little is known … about the size of these gains in many developing countries. This paper develops a new Gender Employment Gap Index (GEGI …), which is equal to the size of long-run GDP per capita gains from closing gender employment gaps. The GEGI is simple and …
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-farm economy remains warranted to broker the transition to more and more productive rural employment. The key policy questions thus … structural transformation to review the evolution of Africa's rural employment and its inclusiveness. Many African countries …
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cultural beliefs and primary data collected from all three governorates. Furthermore, since greater growth in employment …
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Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal … estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The study involves 745 individuals in a field … experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. The findings show that …
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