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"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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informality. The focus of this report is on exploring options to enhance worker welfare and firm productivity through access to …
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creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …
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creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …
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concern: relatively few persons of working age are employed, and many of those who are employed have low-productivity jobs … policymakers in Armenia. Furthermore, it is important that in the longer term, wage growth does not exceed labor productivity …
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and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor … market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary … reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth. Privatization has not only …
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"Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of...
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"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the...
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"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
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