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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...
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...
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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...
Book
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...
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...
Book Chapter
Ghana
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Africa's Lions
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...
Book Chapter
Conclusion
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Modernizing Women