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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...
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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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The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the...
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Using data on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, this paper provides new evidence on the labor market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects, the analysis exploits the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labor...
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earning growth was considerably higher than that in employment, and the decline in gross domestic product was associated with … growth in gross domestic product. These findings have implications that go beyond the recent financial crisis as they …
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This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a rural economy. This paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on higher migration costs due to restrictions on alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse...
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particular, it assesses the relative contributions of within-sector and between-sector productivity to output per capita growth … have lagged behind. Labor productivity growth has been strong across most sectors, albeit mainly driven by within … growth is increasing …
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor … manufacturing and export manufacturing growth. Within Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico, the effects of different sectoral growth …
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recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills … -- all of which experienced rapid growth in recent years, but for different reasons. The patterns of growth are analyzed in … "fundamentals" challenges in growth. Out of the seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …
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Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … stimulates exports in general and manufacturing exports in particular, improves the trade and current account balances, and spurs … economic growth. Currency undervaluation is a second-best policy intervention that can help offset some of the key constraints …
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