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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...

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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country's paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition approach, complemented with econometric estimation of...

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Search and multiple jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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Long social distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data

Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into …

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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; … - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

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The COVID-19 pandemic's evolving impacts on the labor market: who's been hurt and what we should do

Hershbein, Brad; Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...

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Temporary help employment in recession and recovery

Houseman, Susan N.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - 2015

The temporary help industry, although small, plays a significant role in the macro economy, reflecting employers' growing reliance on temporary help agencies to provide flexibility in meeting staffing needs. Drawing on detailed temporary-help order data between 2007 and 2011 from a large,...

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Development aid and employment

Hoeven, Rolph van der - 2012

Globalization has led to a precarization of labour, which especially manifests in the unstable working conditions, a lower labour share in national income as well as in a growing income inequality, with the exception of some countries with high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern...

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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015

Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in...

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