Showing 1 - 10 of 210
improving employment outcomes over the medium to long term. A potential time lag between entrepreneurial intentions and actions … is sometimes presented as a reason why employment impacts are rarely observed. Based on a randomized control trial among … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004724
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431418
volunteering program that consisted of inter-community volunteering activities and soft skills training on self-reported social …' soft skills that were thought to contribute to social cohesion. This finding implies that the mechanism for improved social … other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002686
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736392
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240539
The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender-based discrimination by employers at the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297473
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051879
This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008172
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138604