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accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …
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Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth is a new report focusing on the challenge of economic engagement among … the Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast aging population, Brazil's greatest economic opportunity is to increase its … labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth …
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Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …
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documents patterns, trends, correlates, and the labor market effects of formal off-the-job training of youth, based on national …
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The labor force in Liberia is quite young. Youth aged 15 to 34 constitute over a third of thepopulation in Liberia and … are somewhat concentrated in urban areas, according to the 2008census. These youth represent both a demographic dividend … and a concern. The educational attainment of Liberian youth is steadily improving but remains low on average.Youth …
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What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by exploring the link between the size of the country and...
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The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
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This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...
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A semiparametric varying coefficient model is used to explore the heterogeneity in returns to export promotion across countries. Differences in characteristics of export-promotion agencies drive the heterogeneity in returns. Interestingly, characteristics that matter for export growth do not...
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The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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