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captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …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 …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women …
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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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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...
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Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...
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' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …
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Differences in management quality are an important contributor to productivity differences across countries. A key question is how to best improve poor management in developing countries. This paper tests two different approaches to improving management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first...
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other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …
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The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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