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Republic of the Philippines Labor Market Review : Employment and Poverty
World Bank - 2016
This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues that pervasive in-work poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is primarily due to low earning capacity of the poor and to their limited access to regular and...
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Vietnam Labour Market and Informal Economy in a Time of Crisis and Recovery 2007-2009 : Main Findings of the Labour Force Surveys
Chi, Nguyen Huu - 2010
In 2007 the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS) which, in a first...
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Who is employed? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios Lopez, Amparo; … - 2020
The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (in 2013) redefined labor statistics standards. A major change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered...
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Employment in South Asia : a new dataset
Beyer, Robert; Chocce, Milagros; Rama, Martín - 2019
This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more than 60 primary data sources from 2001 to 2017. The main contribution of the paper is to curate the information provided by individual respondents to censuses and surveys, in a...
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Employment structure and returns to skill in Vietnam : estimates using the labor force survey
Demombynes, Gabriel Maurice Gaudefroy; Testaverde, Mauro - 2018
This paper uses Labor Force Survey data to assess key aspects of the labor market in Vietnam over 2007-14. The analysis finds large growth in wage employment in the foreign-owned and domestic private sectors. However, the state sector remains a major employer, particularly for workers with...
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Skatter, tjänster och sysselsättning : betänkande av Tjänstebeskattningsutredningen
1997
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Labor Market Regulations and Outcomes in Sweden : A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends
Ulku, Hulya - 2015
This paper analyzes recent trends in Sweden's labor market regulations in relation to comparator economies and examines … more rapidly to the recent global financial crisis than the majority of the European Union economies, which helped Sweden … to recover quickly. Sweden's hiring regulations are more flexible than those of many comparator economies, however, fixed …
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, William Stanley - 2004
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits? average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age...
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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration
Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019
This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor contents in exports were generated from the...
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