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employment. This new analysis was possible by applying the growth decomposition tool to new data disaggregated by sectors of the … economy and new data on constraints to productivity and employment growth generated by the three enterprise surveys conducted …
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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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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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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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, 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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This is a semi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). The report looks at the economic performance and outlook for the Western Balkans region and specific...
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employment. Many low-income countries, including Nepal, are in the middle of a youth bulge in their demographic structure. In … opportunities for the country. Nepal also faces risks from failing to provide sufficient, appropriate employment which is productive …
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differ by gender; this is done using firm-level data to examine the drivers of firm performance and employment growth. The … relating to work status, sector of employment and earnings, inter alia. Section 4 considers the gender composition of labor …
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This paper shows that as the educational composition in the fifty-five to sixty-four year-old age bracket improved between the mid-1990s and the mid-2010s, the effective retirement age rose rapidly in the Central and Eastern European region. This increase was fast enough to keep life...
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