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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity
Deininger, Klaus - 2018
This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936139
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Changing Wage Structure in India in the Post-Reform Era : 1993-2011
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2017
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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Labor Migration and Economic Growth in East and Southeast Asia
Walmsley, Terrie Louise - 2017
East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries' labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...
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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Once NEET, Always NEET? A Synthetic Panel Approach to Analyze the Moroccan Labor Market
Alfani, Federica - 2020
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
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Regional Labor Market Developments in Transition
Huber, Peter - 2006
The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779242
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Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum Tefera - 2017
Do matching frictions affect youth employment in developing countries? This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The job fairs match firms with a representative sample of young, educated job-seekers. The meetings at the fairs create very few jobs:...
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