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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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This paper examines the trends in skill and activity upgrading in global value chains (GVCs) and the drivers of upgrading in Asian economies. It uses the newly constructed ADB Multi-Region Input-Output Tables as well as occupation data on jobs by educational attainment and business activities,...
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In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the futureand see older people …
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The demographic dividend that contributed substantially to economic growth in developing Asia in the past is …
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Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but there is mounting concern that … consumption, trade, and technological advances in 12 economies that accounted for 90% of employment in developing Asia during the …
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One of the less well-understood channels through which technology affects labor market outcomes is the creation of new types of work. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of new occupations by comparing various classifications of occupations and predicting probabilities to access them...
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This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … the “engine of growth.” It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 2 of the paper reviews the role of Asia's developmental states in consciously …
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This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … as the “engine of growth.” It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …
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Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among … than the direct linkages. Finally, there is an increased tendency in Asia for both “near selling” of the value added in …
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The pullbacks of capital inflows to developing Asia following the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 have … brought renewed attention to the role and benefits of financial globalization. A number of notable distinctions between the …
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