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Understanding Ghana’s growth success story and job creation challenges

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, growth has been...

  • Economic growth
  • Employees
  • Equality and inequality
Journal Article
Self-assessed vs. statistical evidence of racial discrimination

This paper provides new insights on the labour market discrimination faced by indigenous Australians one of the most disadvantaged indigenous populations in developed countries. Combining two large, nationally representative datasets, we decompose...

  • Discrimination in employment
  • Employees
  • Ethnic relations
Blog
Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: The Challenge for Donors
by Malokele Nanivazo, Lucy Scott August 2012

Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott The first gender equality workshop under UNU-WIDER’S ReCom—Research and Communication in Foreign Aid project was held...

  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Employees
  • Equality and inequality
Blog
Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: Future Agenda
by Malokele Nanivazo, Lucy Scott September 2012

This is the second of a two-part article presenting key discussion points from the UNU-WIDER gender equality workshop held 12-13 July 2012, in...

  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Employees
  • Equality and inequality
Blog
African Lions - Ghana's job creation successes and obstacles
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by Christina Golubski June 2016

Over the past two decades, Ghana’s economy experienced an average annual growth rate of 5.8 percent, and became a low-middle income country in 2007...

  • Economic growth
  • Employees
  • Equality and inequality
Working Paper
Traditional and modern employee benefits in Myanmar’s manufacturing sector

Employer-provided benefits are independent elements in the compensation packages that make up firms’ payment strategies. Such benefits are aimed at attracting and retaining preferred employees and improving incentives. In Myanmar, there are two...

  • compensation packages
  • employee benefits
  • Labour law
Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Welfare

We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption expenditure. Using quantile regressions, we find welfare hierarchy in occupations. The results suggest that, across the welfare distribution...

  • Agricultural labourers
  • Consumption
  • Employees
Working Paper
Self-assessed versus statistical evidence of labour market discrimination

We assess the relative importance of statistical residual-based measures of discrimination in determining indigenous Australians’ perceptions of discrimination in the labour market. We find that statistical measures are largely unrelated to...

  • Discrimination in employment
  • Employees
  • Ethnic relations
Journal Article
Entrepreneurship and Welfare

Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics

  • Agricultural labourers
  • Consumption
  • Employees
Book Chapter
Ghana

Part of Book Africa's Lions

  • Economic growth
  • Employees
  • Equality and inequality
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Modernizing Women

Exploring the impact of social change in the Middle East on women's status and roles, as well as women's varied responses, this book focuses on the gender dynamics of some of the major social processes in the region: economic development and women's...

  • Employees
  • Families
  • Social movement
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Modernizing Women

Exploring the impact of social change in the Middle East on women's status and roles, as well as women's varied responses, this book focuses on the gender dynamics of some of the major social processes in the region: economic development and women's...

  • Employees
  • Families
  • Social movement
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Comparative Study of Women’s Work Satisfaction and Work Commitment

Part of Book Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies

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  • Women
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Conclusion

Part of Book Modernizing Women

  • Employees
  • Families
  • Social movement
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Women and Social Change in Afghanistan

Part of Book Modernizing Women

  • Employees
  • Families
  • Social movement
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Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Part of Book Modernizing Women

  • Employees
  • Families
  • Social movement
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