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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other â€¦
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force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the â€¦
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical â€¦ literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education â€¦ results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be â€¦
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move up the wage ladder. Education plays an important role, as it increases the probability of transitioning into a better â€¦
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age â€¦, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the â€¦
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Public debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers' wages and benefits. Empirical research is limited: temporary employment services cannot be accurately identified in recent labour force surveys. In 2015, South Africa...
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Attempts to regulate the temporary employment sector have had mixed results internationally. In South Africa, temporary employment was regulated in 2015 through amendments to the Labour Relations Act. This paper uses administrative data to examine the short-term impact of strengthening...
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This paper studies the decline of the labour share in Mexico during the period 1990-2015. It calculates the wage share and alternative measures of the labour income share (which includes labour income of the self-employed) for the whole economy, the private business sector, and its major...
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Frequent electricity outages threaten to impede the benefits of expanded access achieved by many developing countries in recent decades. A large literature documents these negative effects, however almost none consider labour market effects. This paper merges labour force survey microdata with...
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