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transformation. This growth has been extensively associated with more employment, higher wages, shared prosperity, and poverty …
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COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
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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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identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment …
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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
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participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to …
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and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …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 …
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …
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native-refugee gap in men's employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men's employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women's employment … native-refugee gap in men's (women's) paid employment reduces to 4.7 (4.0) percentage points (pp). These small gaps conceal …
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