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The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions. Still, linkage rates have declined steeply in recent years in non-resource rich countries in the region although they have increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural...
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impact of corruption on employment growth among private firms. Using firm-level survey data for 109 countries, the analysis … finds that corruption has a much larger negative impact on employment growth for firms that are financially constrained … the bribery rate brings about a decline in the annual growth rate of employment of financially constrained firms that is 2 …
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Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...
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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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Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …
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other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …
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that are more exposed to automation in the U.S. through trade fared in exports and employment outcomes. The results show … employment, nor manufacturing wage employment overall. Yet, the latter is the result of two counteracting forces. Exposure to U ….S. automation reduced manufacturing wage employment in areas where occupations were initially more susceptible to being automated …
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