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employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …

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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015

structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

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Effects of pro-growth policies on employment : evidence of regional disparities

Kamar, Bassem; Bakardzhieva, Damyana; Goaied, Mohamed - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 40, pp. 4337-4367

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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

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The puzzle on the causality of the productivity and employment growth : evidence from firm-level data

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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

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Multinational corporations, wages and employment : do adjustment costs matter?

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The impact of trade on the relative wages and employment of low skill workers in France

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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...

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