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enable migrant workers to exploit opportunities to work in economies where labor productivity is higher. The inflow of …
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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...
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productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative data for South Africa. It is the first paper to benchmark employment and … productivity dynamics against various comparator countries for which similar analysis has been undertaken. The paper finds that … and exit is negligible. The static and dynamic productivity decompositions raise a concern that although productive …
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Ethiopia's competitiveness and attractiveness as an investment destination by comparing domestic productivity and input costs …, the labor cost advantage of Ethiopian firms is more than offset by low productivity. However, Ethiopia appears competitive … when compared to Bangladesh. Capital, firm size, or sectoral composition do not explain the low productivity of the …
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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...
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