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Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated … in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …
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The paper examines the flow of workers between employment states, the role of education in these transitions and the …-directional transitions between formal and informal employment but with a higher tendency of workers to transition from formal to informal … find the transition from informal to formal increases with education but the movement from formal to informal employment …
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1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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most countries, so that agriculture is still the dominant sector of employment for most young men and women. We model …
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market data reinforces the idea of a large private sector, which provides about 90% of total employment opportunities … account on average for only 10% of total employment (a share similar to that provided by public administration and state owned … enterprises). South Africa is the notable exception, with formal wage employment in the private sector representing 46% of total …
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rising temperatures and drought on the employment outcomes of working–age individuals in South Africa between 2008 and 2017 … more reliant on tourism. The employment outcomes of women, part-time workers, and workers without a high school diploma …
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and the probability of getting one shows that schooling increases the chances of being hired in formal employment and of … having higher earnings in it. Women with greater responsibilities at home are less likely to want formal employment, and they … also face a lower probability of being hired in such jobs. The findings indicate the segmentation of Mexican labour markets …
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