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This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
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unemployment in the country …
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increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …
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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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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 exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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choice probabilities in order to investigate the poverty and distributional consequences of the policy. The impact of a wage … subsidy on employment, poverty, and inequality in South Africa depends greatly on the elasticities of substitution of factors …
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