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indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … estimates did not indicate any causality in Big African players like South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana and Senegal. …
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or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank … and foster innovation. The probability of innovation as a result of short-term mobility is 0.4 higher in Africa overall … - especially in East Africa - vis-à-vis the rest of the world, and strongest in the case of innovation in products and services …
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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in Italy. Courses aimed at raising parental awareness of the importance of educational activities were offered in four cities (Naples, Reggio Emilia, Teramo and Palermo) within the...
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-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm creation requires entrepreneurial search and paying the start-up costs, while …
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, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank …, and trade. Short-term labour mobility thus emerges in Africa, too, as a prospective policy lever to generate new …
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Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized dual apprenticeships have the potential to address...
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This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ethnic groups, 2,200 electoral constituencies, and 400,000 individuals. We implement a regression...
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We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We … document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on …
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' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 …
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