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in the working-age population: early 32 percent of Tunisian youth were "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" (NEET … paper aims to shed light on the main obstacles to creating sufficient employment and addressing labor market distortions in …
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did not directly increase employment. To illustrate the relationship between firm-level exporting and employment, we …) in 2013, 2016, and 2020. Our firm-level microanalysis demonstrates that while there is a positive employment response to …
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transformation. This growth has been extensively associated with more employment, higher wages, shared prosperity, and poverty …
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The U-shape theory argues that at early stages of development, countries experience a reduction in the female labor force participation, eventually followed by a recovery. In Morocco, female labor force participation is now lower than it was two decades ago due to several factors that are...
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The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis … identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment … Survey of 2007 and 2017, when the unemployment rate returned to the pre-crisis level. Broadly, the results show that …
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This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the...
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This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, we use employment data from about one hundred censuses … and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …
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Since the early 1990s, some developing countries have experienced a coincidence of rising exports - especially those related to global value chains - and improved labor market outcomes. During 2000-10, rising trade was associated with falling poverty and inequality in many developing countries....
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thus, lost employment opportunities. This paper evaluates the relationship between regional trade agreements using a …
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shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male employment ratio. The key theoretical result shows formally that …-to-male employment ratio should increase (decrease). We then use plausibly exogenous variation in the exposure of Tunisian local labor … larger in male-intensive sectors. This induced a decrease in the female-to-male employment ratio, with households likely …
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