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programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into … employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …
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This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …
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Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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allow for uneven impacts of the pandemic by employment sector and demographic characteristics. We present three updating …
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unemployment rates in the world, we find that the policy increased the probability of remaining employed in the short term by 15 …
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This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …
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employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …
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The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …
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