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(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …
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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment. There is very little research about the … direct links between monetary policy and employment. The impact of growth on employment depends on what are the main drivers …
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This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are … from non-professional own account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income levels, non …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
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participation rates, while rising household incomes contributed negatively in relatively poorer countries, suggesting that a …
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level of economic development. At the same time, structural transformation in other countries, including those in the region … of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …
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This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...
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We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK … between household members. These findings support investments in non-cognitive skill development in order to reduce the damage …
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This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to …
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We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
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