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By causing a sizeable reduction in employment 6 percent and labor supply 19 percent, chronic diseases are responsible for a major efficiency loss in the Egyptian economy. Furthermore the impact of chronic diseases on the labor market is not uniformly distributed. The older and the less educated...
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Labor market regulation is a high-profile, and often contentious, area of public policy. Although these regulations have been studied most extensively in developed countries, there is a growing body of literature on their effects in developing countries. This paper reviews that literature and...
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Since the liberalization of India's economy beginning in the early 1990's, the government has increasingly employed contract workers to perform various state functions, including in the education sector. Yet, little research has been done to examine how courts have reacted to this shift in...
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A large number of studies have shown that contribution of exporters to economic growth and development is much higher than non-exporting firms. This evidence has lead governments to improve their trade policies in order to increase foreign exposure of firms. However, improvements in trade...
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A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of the stores report labor regulations as a problem for their business. Using these data we analyze the effect of labor regulation on employment at the store level. We find that...
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This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous … country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market …
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The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies …, accumulation of arrears from the sector, poorly-maintained physical capital, and cross-subsidies across customer classes. Egypt …. Egypt has been able to achieve universal access with more or less reliable power over the entire period, except when chronic …
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Republic of Egypt. An appropriate measure of welfare also led to downward corrections in inequality in urban Egypt, while …
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Like many emerging markets, the Arab Republic of Egypt is keen to promote distributed solar, defined here as systems … policy actions to unlock the distributed solar market for on-grid and off-grid applications, using Egypt as a case study. The … distributed solar market. These findings indicate that the distributed solar market in Egypt will remain a niche market in the …
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of private savings behavior in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and considers the effect of financial development. The … savings in Egypt follow the Life Cycle Model in the long term. Controlling for population growth, the analysis finds that the … maximizing private savings and financing growth in Egypt …
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