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This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that …
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workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … associated positively with firm employment in advanced and emerging market economies, although the relationship is more uncertain …
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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 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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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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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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