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Women's Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana - 2017
Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to … intervention attempting to jumpstart adolescent women's empowerment in Uganda, a context in which 60 percent of the population are …
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Labor Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labor Market Performance in OECD and European Countries
Fialova, Kamila - 2011
The aim of this technical note is to shed some light on relationship between labor market institutions and labor market outcomes in the member states of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in North America and East Asia; the New Member States of the European Union who...
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Jobs in Iraq : A Primer on Job Creation in the Short-Term
Bandiera, Luca - 2019
Iraq needs a strategy to make rapid progress in tackling its profound jobs challenges. Iraq is facing a jobs crisis of unprecedented proportions. It could foment a resurgence in violence unless the Government of Iraq makes credible and swift progress in job creation and reconstruction. To shape...
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Losing Livelihoods : The Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh
Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2020
This paper provides early insights into the labor market impacts of the ongoing Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in Bangladesh, with a special focus on three especially vulnerable areas: poor areas in Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporations and Cox's Bazar district. The authors build on...
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The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
Khamis, Melanie - 2021
The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This brief presents estimates on the crisis' impact on labor markets in thirty-nine countries based on high-frequency phone survey...
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South-South Migration and the Labor Market : Evidence from South Africa
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 the authors study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this period the share of foreign born over the total population has grown by almost fifty percent, and both the characteristics and geographical distribution of immigrants show...
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Estimating Employment Effects of Powerlinks Transmission Limited Project in India and Bhutan
International Finance Corporation - 2012
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Revisiting Labor Market Regulations in the Middle East and North Africa
Hatayama, Maho - 2022
social security contributions, and legal frameworks affecting women's work. This paper finds that the region has generally …. Statutory minimum wages and labor taxes are not very high, with the exception of a few countries. Although many countries have … made efforts to remove legal barriers for women workers, discriminatory laws still restrict their participation in the …
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