Online job vacancies from a Ukrainian
website were explored to assess the skills that employers
look for among their new hires. The demand for cognitive,
socioemotional,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 137560Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Muller, Noël ;
Safir,Abla
This paper reviews the performance of
the Russia Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP) as an
instrument for directly addressing the needs of the
population to access...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 137448Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Shulga,Ivan ;
Shilov,Lev ;
Sukhova,Anna ;
Pojarski,Peter Ivanov
E-commerce has developed rapidly in
China, and Taobao Villages, which are villages significantly
engaged in ecommerce, are prospering in rural areas.
E-commerce is fostering...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136050Date: April 10, 2019Author:
Luo,Xubei ;
Niu,Chiyu
This study analyzes the impacts of the
recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and
economic outcomes. The identification of the impacts relies
on a difference-in-differences...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136049Date: April 10, 2019Author:
Tandon,Sharad Alan ;
Vishwanath,Tara
China has quickly become the largest
e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally
representative China Family Pane Studies survey with
county-level e-commerce...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136047Date: April 10, 2019Author:
Luo,Xubei ;
Wang,Yue-000541442 ;
Zhang,Xiaobo
The Republic of Yemen has undergone a
profound transformation following the escalation of conflict
in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a
disruption...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136051Date: April 10, 2019Author:
Tandon,Sharad Alan ;
Vishwanath,Tara
This note analyzes household survey data
and firm-level data to measure gender gaps in employment
outcomes over the past 15 years and shed light on the degree
to which...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135839Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Ruppert Bulmer,Elizabeth N. ;
Scarpari,Raquel ;
Garlati Bertoldi,Pablo Adrian
All UK employers now offer a pension
scheme including the use of automatic enrollment. More than
9 million people have started saving into a workplace
pension as a consequence....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136549Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Sandbrook,Will ;
Ravi-Burslem,Ranila
Nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC)
pension schemes have been successfully implemented since the
mid-1990s in a number of European countries. The NDC
approach features...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136555Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Holzmann,Robert
Nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC)
schemes offer governments desirable properties in terms of
efficiency, fairness, and financial sustainability and an
opportunity...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136556Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Guardiancich,Igor ;
Weaver,R. Kent ;
Demarco,Gustavo C. ;
Dorfman,Mark Charles
This study analyzes the impacts of
recent rural development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic
outcomes. The identification of impacts relies on difference
in differences...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135748Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Nakamura,Shohei ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Alemu,Mohammed Nuru
The Kenyan economy rebounded in 2018 and
economic activity in the first quarter of 2019 was healthy,
although emerging drought conditions could curtail GDP
growth for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135870Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Wankuru,Peter Chacha ;
Dennis,Allen Curtis K. ;
Angelique,Umutesi ;
Chege,Patrick Nderitu ;
Mutie,Celina Katunda ;
Sanya,Sarah Oludamilola ;
Chengula,Ladisy Komba ;
Njagi, Tim ;
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Haynes,Alastair Peter Francis
Many public policies are impossible to
implement without adequate administrative systems in place.
This is true for modern pension schemes and in particular,
notional...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136871Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Palacios,Robert J.
Financial conditions in recent years
have provided developing countries with
unprecedentedopportunities to tap international bond
markets, increasing access to commercial...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135950Date: April 1, 2019Author:
van der Wansem, Patrick B. G. ;
Jessen,Lars ;
Rivetti,Diego
Sweden’s reform began with a published
sketch in 1992 and developed into nonfinancial defined
contribution (NDC) legislation in 1994. This paper discusses
the underpinnings...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136539Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Palmer, Edward ;
Könberg, Bo
The main goals of reforming the
Norwegian old-age pension system toward nonfinancial defined
contributions (NDC) in 2011 were to improve long-run fiscal
sustainability...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136552Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Stølen, Nils Martin ;
Fredriksen, Dennis ;
Hernæs, Erik ;
Holmøy, Erling
The paper focuses on the interrupted
careers in four countries where pensions are based on
lifetime labor income, but they have different labor market
patterns. High...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136869Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Chłon-Dominczak,Agnieszka ;
Góra,Marek ;
Kotowska,Irena E. ;
Magda,Iga ;
Ruzik-Sierdzinska,Anna ;
Strzelecki,Paweł
This paper discusses the potential
expansion of the role of the notional defined contribution
(NDC) paradigm in the ongoing reforms of retirement
provision in China....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 136542Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Lu,Bei ;
Piggott,John ;
Zheng,Bingwen
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is
estimated to have decelerated from 2.5 percent in 2017 to
2.3 percent in 2018, below the rate of growth of the
population for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135861Date: April 1, 2019Author:
Zeufack,Albert G. ;
Calderon,Cesar ;
Kambou,Gerard ;
Cantu Canales,Martha Catalina ;
Korman,Vijdan ;
Kubota,Megumi
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