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Gender Inequality in Employment in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Gender Employment EducationWorking Paper
Earnings and employment microdata in South AfricaTraditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period...
Administrative data Data sources EarningsWorking Paper
Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax dataThis paper has three primary objectives...
Administrative data Employment GenderWorking Paper
Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment?: Evidence from South AfricaThe paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy system that is targeted at the employers of low-wage youth...
Employment youth unemployment TaxationWorking Paper
Individual-level employment transitions in rural Viet NamStructural transformation in rural areas is a key issue in economic development...
Employment Structural transformation Rural areasPolicy Brief
Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin AmericaSome questions have been present since the very first days of development economics but have gained increased attention in recent years: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labor market ...
Economic growth Employment PovertyWorking Paper
The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from MozambiqueThis paper estimates how private returns to education have evolved in the context of postconflict transformation in Mozambique...
Returns to education Workforce EmploymentPolicy Brief
Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique: Results from a baseline surveyBefore now, there has been no systematic study of the transition of university students as they finish their studies and enter the labour market...
Employment Education WagesReport
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in MozambiqueThe survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique aims to respond to the concerns of the Government of Mozambique and development partners with respect to youth employment in the country...
Employment Education WagesBook Chapter
Mining's contribution to low- and middle-income economiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Mining Development Tax revenueWorking Paper
Employment and development in AsiaHow have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal’s Asian Drama?...
Labor Employment Economic growthNews
Press release: Public Forum on Higher Education: A Profile of Mozambican Graduates‘ Inclusive growth in Mozambique ’ programme to launch a report at a public forum on 04 September 2018 Researchers will be available for interviews at the event The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum at the...
Education Higher education EmploymentWorking Paper
Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa: Assessment using administrative tax dataThrough the use of administrative tax data, this study attempts to identify the characteristics of firms that employ relatively large numbers of young people...
Tax administration data Firm level Firm behaviourWorking Paper
Identifying monetary policy rules in South Africa with inflation expectations and unemploymentThis paper investigates whether a Taylor rule accurately describes the South African Reserve Bank’s reaction function in setting interest rates using quarterly data, covering the period since inflation targeting was formally adopted in 2000...
Employment Labour Monetary policyWorking Paper
Gender inequality in employment in MozambiqueWe investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding non-subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector...
Gender Employment EducationWorking Paper
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesWelcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979–80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada’s history, but the eventual integration of these refugees into Canadian society has received insufficient attention...
Canada Earnings Economic integration