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). To achieve more and better employment (where “better” depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …
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services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …
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services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to a trade shock when … worldwide. Our estimator matches observed employment flows with those flows predicted by a model of costly labor adjustment. We … markets (wages and employment) to trade policy. …
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The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., our model predicts at a two-year horizon with RMSFE of 0.28% for the period between 1965 and 2007. Larger part of the deviation between...
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's schooling, but there is evidence that there can be negative effects on girl's education because daughters are often obliged to …
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