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Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
Halim, Daniel Zefanya - 2019
At 50.9 percent, female labor force participation in Indonesia is far below the regional average of 60.8 percent. Is it … estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …
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Does the Minimum Wage Affect Employment? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2017
employment and wages offered by Indonesian manufacturing firms from 1993 to 2006. It shows that the estimated effects of minimum … wage on employment are positive within a province (i.e., with province fixed effects), but negative within a firm (i …. It finds significant heterogeneous effects of minimum-wage changes on employment. The employment effects of minimum wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975102
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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil
Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018
The production of export goods has become increasingly unbundled, and countries positioning to become more integrated in the global economy are increasingly looking toward global value chains. This paper uses the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's...
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Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing Versus Services in Development
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
The shares of manufacturing in value added and employment across a range of developing economies peaked at lower levels …
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Policies, Prices, and Poverty : The Sugar, Vegetable Oil, and Flour Industries in Senegal
Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - 2017
competition. For basic food products, there is an implicit trade-off between the objectives of maintaining employment and lowering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971668
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Urbanization and the Geography of Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2017
This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973214
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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974488
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Second Best? Investment Climate and Performance in Africa's Special Economic Zones
Farole, Thomas - 2017
As an instrument of trade and investment policy, special economic zones have played a catalytic role in processes of industrialization, diversification, and trade integration in many countries, particularly in East Asia. However, in the African context, anecdotal evidence suggests the experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976338
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Industry and Skill Wage Premiums in East Asia
di Gropello, Emanuela - 2017
relation to trends and patterns of demand for skills (Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand; Vietnam and China; and Cambodia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976433
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How Do Cities in Ethiopia Create Jobs?
Mukim, Megha - 2017
increases in employment. Agglomeration economies, better business environment, and access to better infrastructure are factors …
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