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, Indian policymakers would like to: (i) increase the recognition of Indian culture globally; (ii) facilitate human capital …
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This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years since 2000, in the context of significant structural...
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migrants in terms of employment, informality and earnings of Peruvian workers during 2008-2018. We find that a 1 pp increase in … workers with tertiary education in the non-service sector; b) a 1 pp decrease in the probability of having an informal job for … workers with tertiary education in the non-service sector; and c) a 3.2 percent decrease in real monthly earnings for workers …
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This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Family Health Survey and CMIE Consumer Pyramid Household Survey to comment on the falling female...
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This paper studies the aggregate effects of the existing differences between male and female-run firms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the International Labor Organization (ILO), we show that only about one-fourth of the total firms...
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Recent studies on oil market demonstrate endogeneity of oil price by modeling it as a function of consumption and precautionary demands and producers’ supply. However, studies analysing the effect of oil price uncertainty on investment, do not disentangle uncertainties raised by underlying...
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While the relationship between business cycles and employment is a topic of continuing interest, it has received limited attention in the literature focusing on developing countries. This study adds to the literature as it analyzes the heterogeneous correlations of the business cycle with...
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main issues that we focus on are: i) the hypothesis that industries with a higher share of workers performing routine tasks …
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other types of training. This finding is important for two reasons. First, the proportion of temporary workers that obtain …This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for … permanent and temporary workers in Chile. We use data from the Social Protection Survey, EPS, which allow us to construct a …
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find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect …. This can be explained by the different feedback effect of labor productivity on training and by the different type of … training provided. While production outsourcing induces an organizational change which stimulates off-the-job training for …
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