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This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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Dismissal protection and worker flows in OECD countries : evidence from cross-country/cross-industry data

Bassanini, Andrea; Garnero, Andrea - 2012

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis

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Migration, remittances and human capital investment in Kenya

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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya

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We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...

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Determinants of employment growth at MNEs : evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …

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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

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