Showing 1 - 10 of 166
place of households in the economy as reflected by employment sector and geographical location, and the extent to which the … processes of growth, particularly through accessible and remunerative employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465459
Enterprise development, especially expansion into export markets, is essential to create employment and unlock growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550299
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 … and raising productivity in agriculture are recommended for the promotion of growth inclusiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413477
We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137965
employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012406
This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is … typically associated with better export performance at the firm level due to productivity enhancements and new products. However …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122606
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635646
We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152273
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883413
Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326184