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, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …
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In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated … representative firm data that covers the formal and informal economy to investigate the impact of agglomerative forces on employment … employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing, finding that there is no evidence that population density is associated with faster …
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The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
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Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher...
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This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
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Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in...
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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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