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The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …
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set of indicators for this purpose. This study looks at research, development, and demonstration financing in the Nordic … countries, which are frequently mentioned as leading countries with respect to eco-innovation. Different indicators are …, its ease of monitoring, and its robustness as assessment criteria. No indicator or set of indicators emerges as clearly …
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Studies is a large and innovative database of social development indicators to overcome such data constraints. They are based …
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It is widely accepted that the distribution of power between ethnic groups within a country plays a key role in major social, political, and economic outcomes. Researchers working on the topic have various measures of ethnic dominance and exclusion, and other closely related aspects such as...
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Using publicly available databases and drawing on a wide range of indicators, this paper reviews the institutional … legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends … the scores presented by the indicators are put into context, and that we understand the historical path of Mozambique, the …
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adjustments to the indicators and data collection approaches, but many relate to inherent challenges to measurement in this area. …
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, narrowing it to a focus on certain indicators without analysing their feasibility. This approach to policy-making is a form of …
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We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on this of house price appreciation. Using the China Household Finance Survey 2011, we construct household history of property purchases and educational investment over the past 16...
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Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors and the overall Vietnamese economy to examine the roles played … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …
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employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …
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