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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
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In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …
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. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …
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A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers … between care leave and wage may be that men’s care leave has a stronger signalling effect compared with women’s care leave. …
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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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