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outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …
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fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …
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The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …
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high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …
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nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …
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This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … inequalities in vulnerable employment. Conditional on individual and household characteristics, women are 7 percentage points more … likely to be in vulnerable employment than men. The experiences of marriage and parenthood are important drivers of this …
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Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend …
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