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"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
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The acceleration of productivity since 1995 has prompted a debate over whether the economy's underlying growth rate will remain high. In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating trend growth that draws on growth theory to identify variables other than productivity - namely consumption...
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Youth employment issues are a major concern for many countries because they have negative effects on the welfare of … Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation of the World Bank Group’s support to countries trying to address youth employment issues. The … World Bank lending portfolio for youth employment is relatively small, although components of programs appear in 57 …
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past youth employment interventions in the region. It argues for the need of an integrated approach should governments want … to tackle youth employment issues in a sustainable manner. Indeed, in African countries, with large informal sectors and …
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