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Stunted growth : why don't African firms create more jobs?
Iacovone, Leonardo; Ramachandran, Vijaya; Schmidt, Martin B. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225542
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Exports and productivity : comparable evidence for 14 countries
2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623866
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On the allocation of resources in developing East Asia and Pacific
De Nicola, Francesca; Kehayova, Vera; Nguyen, Ha - 2018
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 productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002254
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Women at work : how can investment incentives be used to enhance economic opportunities for women?
Kronfol, Hania; Nichols, Alison; Trang Thu Tran - 2019
Around the world, women face persistent barriers in seeking to enter the labor force, attain leadership positions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059225
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Are there more female managers in the retail sector? : evidence from survey data in developing countries
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346109
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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...
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A detailed anatomy of factor misallocation in India
Duranton, Gilles; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, … - 2016
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How costly are labor gender gaps? : estimates for the Balkans and Turkey
Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - 2015
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