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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...
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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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of the largest gender disparities. It exploits the massive roll-out of mobile broadband technology in Jordan between 2010 …
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principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …
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economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War. The surge of refugees to Jordan in 1990?1991 was … massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and … quirk in Jordanian law. The refugee surge was the main mechanism by which Jordan's economic institutions improved in the …
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governorates of Jordan. The social norms measures are disaggregated into thematic clusters, empirical and normative expectations …
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mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset … Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed …
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Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long … factor in the successful implementation of reforms in Jordan …
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Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …
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Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tested the role …
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