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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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How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of … Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of … "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of the Lewisian development process. In fast-growing countries with …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …
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We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative quantitative and qualitative longitudinal analysis through the whole childhood of the individual into early adulthood, from age 8 up to age 25. Multilevel survival analysis shows that...
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competitive labour markets assumption is not valid for employment in developing countries. Our objective in this paper is to …
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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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1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …
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, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …
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This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education. We assess the programme's longer-term impact on...
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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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