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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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that are more exposed to automation in the U.S. through trade fared in exports and employment outcomes. The results show … employment, nor manufacturing wage employment overall. Yet, the latter is the result of two counteracting forces. Exposure to U ….S. automation reduced manufacturing wage employment in areas where occupations were initially more susceptible to being automated …
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This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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similar to that in other parts of the country. The pattern of low employment rates and comparable wages is consistent with a … combination of low demand for labor and greater reluctance to work in these regions, which each depress employment but have … formal finance, which may also contribute to a lack of self-employment opportunities …
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assess the extent to which the adoption of digital technology affects employment and the skill content of jobs at the local … to a reduction in employment in local labor markets. The decrease in employment is larger for routine tasks, thereby …
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The paper tests the effects of plan-making on job search and employment. In a field experiment with unemployed youths … into more job offers (30 percent) and employment (26 percent). Weekly reminders and peer-support sub-treatments do not …
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influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …
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. Furthermore, among the unemployed, the probability of moving into informal employment is found to be significantly larger for … labor market outcomes. More attention to designing programs that are incentive-compatible with formal employment would be a …
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