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The large-firm wage premium in developing economies

Reed, Tristan; Trang Thu Tran - 2019

Large firms pay higher wages. In developing economies, the large-firm wage premium is comparable to the average gap between male and female wages, or two-thirds of the gap between urban and rural wages. There is substantial variation across countries in the share of the premium that is explained...

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Exporting and female labor market outcomes in Georgia

Hollweg, Claire H.; Lopez, Anne Beline Ong - 2020

Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the share of exports in total sales, to explore whether changes in the structure of sales (exporting versus selling to the domestic market) matter for labor market outcomes. The...

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Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?

Serneels, Pieter - 2016

in Tanzania, this paper investigates whether survey methods matter for estimating mincerian returns to education. The …

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Persistent misallocation and the returns to education in Mexico

Levy, Santiago; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2019

Over the last two decades, Mexico has experienced macroeconomic stability, an open trade regime, and substantial progress in education. Yet average workers' earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the...

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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America

Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...

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More than schooling : understanding gender differences in the labor market when measures of skill are available

Gunewardena, Dileni; King, Elizabeth M.; Valerio, Alexandria - 2018

This paper uses measures of cognitive and noncognitive skills in an expanded definition of human capital to examine how schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income countries. The analysis finds that...

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Are There Skills Payoffs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Empirical Evidence Using STEP Data

Valerio, Alexandria - 2016

Most research on the economic payoffs of skills has used individuals' level of schooling attained-typically years or level of education or training received-as a key proxy for skills. Such research has consistently found that individual returns to schooling are positive and that returns tend to...

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The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking households and identifying the poor

Ngo, Diana; Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2018

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …

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Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana : Snapshot of the STEP Skills Measurement Survey

Darvas, Peter - 2017

other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the … Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), the Ministry of Education, the Council for … Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) …

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Ghana Youth Employment Program Inventory

Avura, Francis Babongte - 2016

address the problem of youth unemployment or youth who are not in education and not participating in the labor market in Ghana … mapping youth employment initiatives in Ghana. The government of Ghana has undertaken many initiatives to address the youth … nonprofit efforts, have undertaken training programs to contribute to and improve the labor force in Ghana. The key focus of …

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