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-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical … discrimination against women in Tunisia is sector specific, and, on its own, it cannot fully explain the complex challenge of female …
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university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after …
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Tunisia is expected to enter a recession in 2020 as a result of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the slowdown in … agricultural growth. The World Bank estimates that Tunisia's potential GDP growth has dropped by 2 to 2.5 percentage points in the … past 15 years due to declining physical and human capital, persistently low productivity, and lower competitiveness. The …
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aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …
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This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … average), because labor moved from agriculture, the least productive sector, into other relatively low-productivity activities …
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between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … opposite appears to be the case in Turkey: manufacturing firms with service affiliates tend to be less productive. The type of … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …
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socio-emotional skills among TC youth and students; this, in turn, reduces their employability due to their low productivity … between 2016 and 2019 found a mismatch between the skills generated by the higher education system in the TCc and those in … demand in the labor market. Socio-emotional skills are critical determinants of whether youth can work towards achieving …
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A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in … audit study, an online job portal in Turkey is used to send fictitious resumes to real job openings, collecting a unique … data set that enables investigating different stages of candidate screening. The study finds that socioemotional skills …
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growth and improvements in living standards in Turkey will require higher productivity in the economy. The Turkey … Productivity Report (2019) provides an in-depth analysis of firm productivity in Turkey and how this adds up to economic growth in … areas that might explain firm productivity dynamics in Turkey - namely firms' integration in the global economy, access to …
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