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Exploring the causality links between energy and employment in African countries

Arouri, Mohamed; BenYoussef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem; … - 2014

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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Inequalities in job loss and income loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 crisis

Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios … - 2022

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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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Urbain Thierry - 2020

-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm creation requires entrepreneurial search and paying the start-up costs, while …

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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships

Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019

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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The employment effects of ethnic politics

Amodio, Francesco; Chiovelli, Giorgio; Hohmann, Sebastian - 2019

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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Job losses, outsourcing and relocation : empirical evidence using microdata

Artís Ortuño, Manuel (contributor); … - 2007

' 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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Lessons from migration after EU enlargement

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

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The job creation effect of R&D expenditures

Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2010

In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...

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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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