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Bangladesh Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs : Preparing Youth for a Fast-Changing Economy
World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2018
The skills for tomorrow's Jobs in Bangladesh attempts to address key skills challenges and identifyopportunities in the backdrop of fast technological and economic changes. It proposes mid to long-term strategic policy options that would contribute to economic growth and job creation in...
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Liberia Skills Development Constraints for Youth in the Informal Sector
World Bank - 2016
.Youth recognize that their lack of skills and experience are impediments to employment.The objective of this report is to assess youth … formal employment, this report has a particular focus on skill development in vocational trades and the informal sector. This … World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2013-2017. Both recognize that inadequate skills and vulnerable employment …
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Are skills rewarded in Sub-Saharan Africa? : determinants of wages and productivity in the manufacturing sector
Fox, M. Louise - 2008
authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
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Stepping Up Skills for More Jobs and Higher Productivity
World Bank - 2010
This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …
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