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Improving access to jobs and earnings opportunities : the role of activation and graduation policies in developing countries

Almeida, Rita; Arbelaez, Juliana; Honorati, Maddalena; … - World Bank Group - 2012

Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to facilitate access of the most vulnerable individuals to jobs, while reducing their dependency from public income support schemes. Even though these policies are common to both the activation and...

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Cash for work in Sierra Leone : a case study on the design and implementation of a safety net in response to a crisis

Andrews, Colin; Ovadiya, Mirey; Ribes Ros, Christophe; … - World Bank Group - 2012

This paper presents an assessment of the first phase (2008?2009) of Sierra Leone's cash for work program based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis examining program design features, mainprocesses and impact. The assessment highlights that while cash for work was an appropriate crisis...

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Tailoring social protection to small island developing states : lessons learned from the Caribbean

Williams, Asha; Cheston, Timothy; Coudouel, Aline; … - World Bank Group - 2013

This paper examines the role of social protection (SP) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), given their particular structural, human resource and capacity constraints. While it focuses on SIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean, thelessons may be relevant to other SIDS with similar...

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Youth employment : a human development agenda for the next decade

Robalino, David; Margolis, David; Rother, Friederike; … - World Bank Group - 2013

This paper reviews the main challenges facing countries in attempting to improve labor market outcomes among youth, focusing on the issues that became starkly visible during the recent financial crisis. In order to better identify and set uphuman development interventions, the paper proposes an...

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Social insurance reform in Jordan : awareness and perceptions of employment opportunities for women

Brodmann, Stefanie; Jillson, Irene; Hassan, Nahla - World Bank Group - 2014

The new social insurance law introduced by the Jordanian government in 2010 was created in part to improve the likelihood of women’s employment through non- and gender specific changes. This study, which comprised individual interviews and focus groups with Jordanian women and men, employers...

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Micro-determinants of informal employment in the Middle East and North Africa region

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Tanabe, Kimie - World Bank Group - 2012

This note assesses the main micro?determinants of informal employment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region from a human development stand point. It's main purpose is to quantify the patterns of labor informality (defined as the share of all employment with no access to social...

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Building social protection and labor systems : concepts and operational implications

Robalino, David A.; Rawlings, Laura; Walker, Ian - World Bank Group - 2012

This paper presents a framework for designing and implementing social protection and labor (SP&L) systems in middle and low income countries. Although the term'system'is used to describe a country's set of social protection programs, these tend to operate independently with little or no...

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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants

Bijwaard, Govert E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The … differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining … also yields a framework for predicting the migration dynamics over the life-cycle. From the obtained insight in the dynamic …

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Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We first demonstrate that, within a fully integrated economy (FIE) in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each FIE member's share of total FIE output will equal its shares of the total FIE stock of each productive factor. This equal-share property implies that, if economic...

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