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Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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after the reform, hence exacerbating inequality. …
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-firm wage inequality, and favours capital owners, while overall government revenues decline. The latter is attributable to the …
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a comparative perspective some of the issues like unemployment, role of the state and market, domestic versus foreign … inequality. We attempt to ascertain why some countries have been more successful in dealing with these issues through policy and …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning analysis based on household survey data in the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … behaviour of variables related to labour market status, and labour income inequality. The empirical investigation covers the …
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In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two decades of significant social policy reforms and transformations in the country's economic structures. This paper explores social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a...
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unemployment in South Africa. Specifically, we apply a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to calibrate the 2015 South … African Social Accounting Matrix to estimate, compare, and determine the impact of employment policy on youth unemployment as … a decline in the unemployment rate. Moreover, the consumer price index decreased more than nominal income, thereby …
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This paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency...
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I study the effect of the 2019-21 desert locust outbreak on the intention to migrate among rural households and individuals in Yemen, as an illustration of the human mobility impacts of climate change-related shocks in a complex emergency setting. Using the first systematic household survey...
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The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...
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