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correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …
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This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...
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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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of employment volatility. We, therefore, condition the job creation analysis on job stability. Young firms and large …
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This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi … employment away from employment-for-pay to self-employment. Therefore, the effect on total employment is ambiguous. OLS and fixed … effects regression are used to examine separately self-employment and employment-for-pay between three groups of borrowers …
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services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and …
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Kyrgyzstan". -- survey data ; poverty ; labor force participation ; Central Asia …
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What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes … positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes … employment, and non-farm self-employment, and a decline in farm employment. These effects vary by age, gender and skill level …
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; structural change ; poverty …
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This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to … adult employment. We estimate fixed effects linear probability models. We find that child labor is associated with … vulnerable employment in adulthood. Negative adult employment effects arise when children who are younger than 11-12 work more …
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