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industry in Thailand with an emphasis on employment generation and equity. The analysis is based on a balanced panel data set … that industries with high value-added ratios have more potential to create export-induced employment. The policy …
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We explore how decent work varies across Southern Africa apparel firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) and regional value chains (RVCs), respectively. We draw on crosssection survey data from 135 workers in 31 firms across Eswatini and Lesotho, two large apparel exporters serving...
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There exist a plethora of developing country value chain studies based on a variety of methodological approaches, both in the academic literature and through policy reports. However, there has been little systematic synthesis of the findings and approaches taken in these studies. This study...
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Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009-17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In particular, the paper uses extant classifications of...
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employment share, and country-level structural change. To address issues related to endogeneity and country fixed effects, we use … manufacturing employment share, indicating a reallocation of labour from the agricultural sector into services. Overall global value …
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in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …
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employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …
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This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …
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Very little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to … hikes on employment and wages in Viet Nam's micro enterprises, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), respectively. In … effects of minimum wage changes. The findings indicate that minimum wage has greater employment effects on SMEs, but alters …
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This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …
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