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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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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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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle : evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L. (contributor); … - 2006

unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …. -- Asymmetric labor force participation decision ; unemployment rate ; business cycle ; gender ; education ; age …

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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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Some like it hot : assessing longer-term labor market benefits from a high-pressure economy

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Moore, Robert E. - 2018

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

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Adjusted employment-to-population ratio as an indicator of labor market strength

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014

unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate. This paper proposes an adjustment to the calculation of the EPOP using …

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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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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019

Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...

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Employment and development in Asia

Hoeven, Rolph van der - 2018

How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of...

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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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