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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges
Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015
in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440655
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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014
1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494212
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The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa
Köhler, Timothy; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert - 2023
Wage subsidies served as a dominant labour market policy response around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no causal evidence of their effects exists for developing countries. We use unique panel labour force survey data and exploit a temporary...
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