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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

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Earnings in the South African Revenue Service IRP5 data

Kerr, Andrew - 2020

compare total labour income and employment between 2011 and 2017 with other sources of data, including Statistics South Africa …'s Quarterly Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Employment Statistics firm surveys. Finally, I use the data to estimate Gini …

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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, Thomas; Mata, Catherine; … - 2020

-tier informal workers leave employment or transition into other informal statuses, most transitions are from lower-tier informal …

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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019

employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …

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Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Espino, Alma; Gindling, Thomas - 2019

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...

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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

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