Similar Search Results

Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan : Demographic Profile, Short-Term Projections, and Supply of Migration in Afghanistan

Garrote Sanchez, Daniel - 2018

Afghanistan has one of the youngest populations in Asia, creating strong demographic pressure in the labor market. Around 400,000 youth will continue to enter the labor force annually during the next years. Given the significant slowdown the country's economic activity, the pace at which jobs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645014

The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

Ambrosini, J. William - 2010

This paper uses micro data from the Demographic National Survey and the Census in Romania (2002-2003) and in Countries that have received large number of Romanian immigrants over the period 1990-2000 (US, Austria and Spain) to identify the wage earning ability (skills) of migrants and returnees...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247199

Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market

Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020

Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297861

Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor contents in exports were generated from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059241

What Employers Actually Want : Skills in Demand in Online Job Vacancies in Ukraine

Muller, Noel - 2019

Online job vacancies from a Ukrainian website were explored to assess the skills that employers look for among their new hires. The demand for cognitive, socioemotional, and technical skills across a range of medium- and high-skilled occupations were assessed. Most employers highly demand all...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646450

Skills for a Modern Ukraine

Del Carpio, Ximena - 2017 - Online-Ausg.

Ukraine's economic progress since its independence in the early 1990s has been uneven, in part due to the slow pace of … the skills of Ukraine's workforce with the needs of a modern economy. While the country demonstrates a strong record of …, and proposes a set of policy options. This study argues that, to improve skills formation and use, Ukraine needs to renew …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245336

Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? An Analysis Using STEP Data

Tognatta, Namrata - 2016

Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245554