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Union (EU). Robust growth in employment will require a comprehensive agenda: boosting private sector job creation on the … performance and on skills and labor market policies to support inclusive growth. Employment in Serbia's formal private sector is …. Improving skills and reforming labor market policies can boost both employment and productivity. This note's focus on skills and …
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Slavonia's economy is now amongst the poorest in the European Union (EU) and has been growing more slowly than comparable regions. Some Polish and Romanian counties were less advanced until 2013 but have now overtaken Slavonia. Achieving a turnaround is difficult: only 9 percent of lagging...
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Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This study explores whether laws that discriminate against women influence their engagement in the...
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and iverse manifestations …
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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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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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. 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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Statistics (CAS) with technical assistance from the World Bank. The survey was conducted during the period of September 2011 to … sample sizes within regions. CAS and the World Bank are working together to improve the quality of future surveys …
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, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …
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