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• Discrimination in employment
• Economic policy
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Policy Brief

• Growth
• Employment
• Infrastructure

Working Paper

• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Informal sector
• Labour

Working Paper

This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with a focus on population growth, its structure, and the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend. This is in recognition that...

• Economic growth
• Labour
• Labour productivity

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In this paper, worker and job flows are estimated using the IRP5 data from the South African Revenue Services. The data used in this paper is from the 2011–14 tax years and contains information on more than 12 million individuals and nearly 300,000...

• Job satisfaction
• Labour
• Labour economics

Working Paper

Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of the...

• Equality and inequality
• Labour
• Labour market

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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices. While racial wage gaps started...

• Discrimination in employment
• Equality and inequality
• Labour

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• Labour
• Manufacturing
• Privatization

Journal Article

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Labour

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This article views the four economies of the South in a long run historical perspective of 1500-2000. It contrasts the history and the initial endowments of the two Northern hemisphere economies China and India which are land scarce and labour...

• Economic development
• History of economics
• Factor proportions

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How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal’s Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of ‘informal’...

• Labour
• Employment
• Economic growth

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The paper analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to membership...

• Economic integration
• Labour
• Regional economics

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For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of...

• Capital
• Labour
• Unemployment

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The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant institutions, and...

• Economic development
• Households
• Informal sector

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This 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. The...

• Employment
• Labour
• Monetary policy

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• Labour
• Post-communism
• Privatization