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particularly poorly in terms of job creation. A more vibrant private sector is needed to create more jobs. This CPSD identifies …
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-term positive impacts on self-employment and skills match, while positive but uncertain effects emerge for employment and earnings … training days attended). These positive impacts, however, do not lead to higher employment or greater earnings …
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sector wages and employment for 20 years. This finding can be rationalized in a simple equilibrium model with two … sector. Non-employment strongly increases in harder hit regions in the medium run, but in the longer run, non …-employed workers eventually find re-employment in the informal sector. Working age population does not react to these local shocks, but …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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association between digital technology use by firms and a country's statutory minimum wage and employment protection regulations …, and trade openness. To ensure the broadest country coverage, the paper develops new indexes of employment protection …
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previously unemployed trainees who find employment at non-requesting firms. The demand-driven program's effects are larger and …This study evaluates the employment effects of a publicly-run national technical vocational education training program … offer have an 8.6 percent increase in employment over the year following course completion. These effects come from …
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other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …
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implementation of the New Industrial Policy. The findings show that there was a significant and abrupt increase in employment at the … for certain industries. The paper finds that the increase in cross-border employment is higher for sectors receiving … experience an increase in employment. Finally, the growth in the number of firms in Uttar Pradesh close to the border remained …
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skills is expressed more often and more explicitly in postings for jobs requiring higher levels of experience. Moreover, job … many low- and medium-skill jobs and jobs outside the capital are filled through informal channels. Overall, online data can …
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Online job vacancies from a Ukrainian website were explored to assess the skills that employers look for among their new hires. The demand for cognitive, socioemotional, and technical skills across a range of medium- and high-skilled occupations were assessed. Most employers highly demand all...
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