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This paper presents an analysis of transit accessibility to employment for 11 African cities. The use of identical … Africa through different metrics and visuals. The study shows how the spatial pattern of land use and transport systems … perform in connecting people to employment opportunities in these various settings. This first comparable benchmark is …
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scale effect outweighs the substitution effect. For every ten additional immigrants, employment of native workers increases …
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This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as … well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract … has a significant negative impact on prevalence of both types of informal employment. The share of non …
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …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 …
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sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three … causal impact of electricity shortages on employment, and the mechanisms driving the impact. Results from the paper reveal …
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From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms …
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alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …
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This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing literature emphasizes two mechanisms through which land restrictions can affect the economic outcomes: the collateral value of land, and (in) security of property rights....
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This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 and 2011, the share of male working age population abroad more than doubled, mostly due to young men leaving to work in Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The paper studies...
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