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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
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wages, on average. Interestingly, and contrary to the literature, our results indicate a negative relationship between firm … size and wages. …
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on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …
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, wages are highest for formal workers and lowest for lower-tier informal jobs. The proportion of formal workers who maintain … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
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This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
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improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …
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skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …
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, age and wages were positively related throughout working life, but more recently older workers' wages have been lower than … those of middle-aged workers. The relationship between education and wages was weak in 1988 but strengthened rapidly …
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This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...
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