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-income countries. This paper examines these elements in the context of South Africa and Indonesia - two middle-income countries with …. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the … certain transitions in South Africa and Indonesia, respectively. …
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The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation...
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This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...
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This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates … labour market. Overall, there have been signs of routine-biased technological change and employment polarization since the …
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, the region has become increasingly dependent on GSCs for employment despite some short periods of sharp volatility and … productivity, it also shows that a positive relationship between increased GSC participation and greater wage employment, high …-skill employment, and female employment was limited to specific sectors. Several policies could strengthen the links between GSCs and …
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Using a job-based methodology, this paper studies structural shifts in employment in the South Korean labor market from …-2009, 2009-2019, and 2019-2021. The patterns of change in the employment structure between 2000-2009 and 2009-2019 varies greatly …. Employment in higher-paid jobs increased between 2000 and 2009. Employment polarization, on the other hand, emerged between 2009 …
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the transitions from unemployment to employment and between different types of employment. Using individual-level panel …
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China's manufacturing sector has been a key source of the economy's dynamism. Analysis after 2007 however is hampered by problems in the key data source for empirical analysis, the National Bureau of Statistics' (NBS) annual survey of industrial firms. Issues include missing information on value...
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