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. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage …
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the initial conditions. We analyse the static nature of vulnerable employment-especially youth unemployment and … for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts …
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of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …
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Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers). Based on the universe of records from a matching...
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This paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of informal workers. The analysis draws on official nationally representative labour force surveys collected quarterly by South Africa's national statistical agency (Statistics South Africa). Based on an...
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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...
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Wage subsidies served as a dominant labour market policy response around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no causal evidence of their effects exists for developing countries. We use unique panel labour force survey data and exploit a temporary...
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South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost … effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms claiming the subsidy with similar firms not claiming the subsidy … impact on youth employment on average. We see a positive and statistically significant effect on youth and non-youth …
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This paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study, carried out by the WIEGO network in...
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