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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
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Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market
Bhorat, Haroon; Oosthuizen, Morné; Lilenstein, Kezia; … - 2017
wages, on average. Interestingly, and contrary to the literature, our results indicate a negative relationship between firm … size and wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595712
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Structural labor market changes in France
Estevão, Marcello; Nargis, Nigar - 2005
between real wages and unemployment has improved significantly in France in the second half of the 1990s. Further calculations …
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Recession and Deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470458
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Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2020
We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven hundred children in a variety of strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497802
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The Creativity Premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597567
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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014
on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413608
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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021
, wages are highest for formal workers and lowest for lower-tier informal jobs. The proportion of formal workers who maintain … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422660
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015
This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414938
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Spillover effects of international standards : work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises
Trifković, Neda - 2015
improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517068