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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa toexamine immigration's impact in … the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-SaharanAfrica. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …) employment allocation betweeninformal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The directionof …
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in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact …) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of …
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that China can learn from Russia that it has a substantial potential for increasing employment among healthy people under …
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This paper gives a detailed examination of the overall conditions, poverty and income of rural migrants over recent … years, using results of the survey on rural migrants from 69,000 rural households and more than 7,100 administrative … delineation of the conditions and problems facing rural migrants and sets out policy recommendations …
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increasing employment among healthy people under 70. …
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The paper analyses labour market participation and selection into specific employment sectors in urban areas of Ghana … is found to increase the probability of employment but the reverse is the case in Ghana as education increases the … are characteristic of a preference for formal sector employment by the highly educated as all levels of education are …
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urban attractiveness - in contrast to studies that use employment growth or other indicators. Both the striking and …
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workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban … migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are discriminated out of jobs with formal labour contracts. Results also … suggest that urban migrants are compensated for working in the informal sector by earning higher wages. There is evidence …
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