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Decomposing the Certified and Uncertified Skill Wage Gap for Production Workers in India
Due to the lower capacity of formal learning institutions, informal learning is the prominent source of learning to skill a larger population in...
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Social Networks and the Labor Market
This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labor markets, with a specific focus on develo** countries. It reviews existing...
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Die Wirkung von GRW-Investitionszuschüssen — ein Beitrag zum Aufholprozess?
The joint task force ‘Improving Regional Economic Structures’ (GRW) is the most important regional policy scheme in Germany and was extensively used...
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What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics
Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the...
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Was die Wirtschaftspolitik vom Wirtschaftsnobelpreis des Jahres 2019 lernen kann
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer have been awarded the Nobel Price in Economic Sciences in 2019. This was primarily for their...
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Failing to notice? Uneven teachers’ attention to boys and girls in the classroom
AbstractThis paper analyzes whether teachers’ attention to boys and girls differs in low-performing schools in Chile, where large gender gaps in test...
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Prices
Two distinct types of price data are presented in this chapter: (1) consumer and producer price indices and (2) direct observations on the prices of...
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Macroeconomic Analysis and Parametric Control Based on Global Multi-country Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (Model 1)
This chapter illustrates the efficiency of parametric control based on the dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that was developed from...
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Violence and migration: evidence from Mexico’s drug war
The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the...
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Momentum meets value investing in a small European market
In this paper, we investigate two prominent market anomalies documented in the finance literature – the momentum effect and value-growth effect. We...
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CPI Bias and its Implications for Poverty Reduction in Africa
International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust trends in nominal consumption over...
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The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan
Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs...
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Supporting self-employment and small-scale entrepreneurship: potential programs to improve livelihoods for vulnerable workers
This paper provides a review of the profiles of the subsistence entrepreneurs and their constraints, and the landscape of current entrepreneurship...
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The demand for, and impact of, youth internships: evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science,...
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Migration and educational aspirations – Another channel of brain gain?
International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced...
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Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies
This paper uses firm-level survey data to study labor reallocation and firm growth in the transition countries over 1996–2005, including benchmarking...
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Safety valve or sinkhole? Vocational schooling in South Africa
As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering...
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Project Description and Design
Over the course of the past decades, the pharmaceutical industry has undergone some drastic changes, with rises in sales being predominantly...
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Inequality of opportunities in the labor market: evidence from life in transition surveys in Europe and Central Asia
In this paper we quantify inequality of opportunity in labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia using the Human Opportunity Index (HOI)...
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Life Cycle Analysis and Sustained Organisation Change in Auto Repair Shops
In order to reduce the environmental impact associated with their products, car producers have not only focused their investments on designing...