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employment, even in fossil-fuel-intensive countries. Therefore, the effect on aggregate employment will likely be small …

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Gendered language

Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen - 2018

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many-sometimes all-nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. Drawing on a broad range of historical and linguistic sources, this paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's...

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Rural roads and local economic development

Asher, Sam; Novosad, Paul - 2018

work. However, there are no major changes in consumption, assets or agricultural outcomes. Nonfarm employment in the …

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Job opportunities along the rural-urban gradation and female labor force participation in India

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Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization : a summary of market processes and policy suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...

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Jobs! : electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa

Mensah, Justice Tei - 2018

sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … causal impact of electricity shortages on employment, and the mechanisms driving the impact. Results from the paper reveal … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three …

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