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of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational … systems do not provide enabling environment for a good education. This paper explores employment and educational attainment … among people with disabilities. Although, people with disabilities have low employment probabilities, our finding suggests …
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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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employment promotion (involving income generation and small enterprise and co-operative development, public investment for job … employment and expanding social protection during the last 10-15 years, in particular, largely targeting those poor women mostly …
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Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …
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employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact … of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …
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markets. Investigating outcomes beyond employment and earnings, we do not find an impact on entrepreneurship or university …
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This paper has three primary objectives. First, it provides a broad overview of the available South African data used to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data which has recently been made available. Second, the paper...
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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 …
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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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to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …
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