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increases in employment. Agglomeration economies, better business environment, and access to better infrastructure are factors …
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In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated … representative firm data that covers the formal and informal economy to investigate the impact of agglomerative forces on employment … employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing, finding that there is no evidence that population density is associated with faster …
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Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...
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access to finance results in higher employment growth, especially among micro, small, and medium enterprises. The results are …
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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 …
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countries, this paper finds that average enterprise-level employment growth rates are remarkably similar across regions. This is …, enterprises? employment in Sub-Saharan Africa is less sensitive to changes in access to infrastructure and finance relative to … access to finance generally hamper growth, in Sub-Saharan Africa they are actually associated with higher employment growth …
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Over the last century, the urban spatial structure of cities has transformed dramatically from the traditional monocentric configuration to varying forms of decentralized organization. This paper reviews the theory and empirical evidence to understand the urban morphology of jobs and land use...
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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 employment, education, or training. Drawing from various rounds of … countries. First, it identifies the socioeconomic determinants of Morocco's young population not in employment, education, or …
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scale effect outweighs the substitution effect. For every ten additional immigrants, employment of native workers increases …
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study finds that these barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages, and days worked per …
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