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Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export … difference between the pre- and post-accession export growth rates in the four years before and after accession. This is because …
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domestic market distortions and multiple barriers, resulting in weak export performance and modest regional and global … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future … the export potential. It explores some of the important supply and demand side factors and assesses the role of trade …
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average incomes is driven by a rise in the supply of labor at the local level because municipalities with higher export growth …
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