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This paper examines wage dynamics and turnover using tracking data of adolescents from the Philippines. The analysis …
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labor market as well as in relation to labor migration to India and other countries, including temporary 'foreign employment …
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employment. Many low-income countries, including Nepal, are in the middle of a youth bulge in their demographic structure. In … opportunities for the country. Nepal also faces risks from failing to provide sufficient, appropriate employment which is productive …
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-term positive impacts on self-employment and skills match, while positive but uncertain effects emerge for employment and earnings … training days attended). These positive impacts, however, do not lead to higher employment or greater earnings …
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In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008-13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty....
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three countries, the analysis finds evidence that youth who drop out due to a household income shock have worse employment … programs likely play an important role in the decision to exit school as well as the employment outcomes of those who exit …
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transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …
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being a wage worker, white-collar, and formal worker, with verbal fluency and numeric ability playing particularly strong … openness to experience and emotional stability-is only correlated with employment, and only when using the structural latent …, emotional stability, and openness to experience emerge significantly, mostly for the wage estimates. The different results …
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(financial and physical) to ensure that the marginal product of labor increases above the nutrition-based wage; invest further in …
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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