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Despite the widespread popularity of entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its effectiveness in improving employment outcomes over the medium to long term. A potential time lag between entrepreneurial intentions and actions is sometimes presented as a reason why employment...
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to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and … context of an economy facing substantial political and economic uncertainty, it appears there is an oversupply of graduates in … science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing and business …
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This paper examines the phenomena of high rates of youth that are out of school and out of work in Latin America. The analysis pursues a dynamic approach by constructing a pseudo-panel from 234 household surveys for 18 countries in the region that allow tracing the life cycle trajectories of...
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This paper examines wage dynamics and turnover using tracking data of adolescents from the Philippines. The analysis uses individual test scores in grade 6 to proxy abilities. The empirical results show that (i) returns to labor market experience are large, nearly a half of the conventional...
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-growth than others. Pro-growth corrupt policies hold the promise of enriching the corrupt elite more in absolute terms even though … the share of national wealth diverted may be smaller. The most effective pro-growth polices that help enrich an elite …
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Using a randomized evaluation with 432 Mexican small and medium enterprises, this paper shows that access to management consulting led to better firm performance: one-year results show positive effects on return-on-assets and total factor productivity. Owners also had large increases in...
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This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
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service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …
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, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …
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