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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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International trade in higher education services in the form of international student mobility has increased sharply since the 1960s and especially from Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Many international students, especially those with graduate degrees, stay...
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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