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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059241
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Criss-crossing globalization : uphill flows of skill-intensive goods and foreign direct investment
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916974
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Migration and the skill composition of the labor force : the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries
López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice W. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000920501
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The learning challenge in the 21st century
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240539
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From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development
Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008040
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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022369
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A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Mayer Gukovas, Renata - 2018
This paper revisits traditional human capital models and proposes a new conceptual framework of human capital accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809307
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The medium-term impact of entrepreneurship education on labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from university graduates in Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Brodmann, Stefanie; Premand, Patrick - 2019
Despite the widespread popularity of entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its effectiveness in … university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … entrepreneurship education were short-lived. There are no sustained impacts on self-employment or employment outcomes four years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004724
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Skill use, skill deficits, and firm performance in formal sector enterprises : evidence from the Tanzania Enterprise Skills Survey, 2015
Tan, Hong W.; Bashir, Sajitha; Tanaka, Nobuyuki - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553611