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Making Work Pay in Nicaragua: Employment, Growth, and by Pierella Paci, Catalina Gutierrez

By Pierella Paci, Catalina Gutierrez

Negative humans derive such a lot in their source of revenue from paintings. although, there's inadequate knowing of the function of employment and gains as a hyperlink among progress and poverty aid, particularly in low source of revenue nations. The 'Making paintings Pay' sequence analyzes the $64000 roles of work markets, employment, productiveness, and hard work source of revenue in facilitating shared development and selling poverty reduction.

'Making paintings Pay in Nicaragua' presents an outline of the tendencies in development, poverty, and exertions industry results in Nicaragua. It assesses the linkages between alterations in output, employment, and hard work productiveness, and it hyperlinks alterations within the caliber and volume of employment to poverty aid. The publication additionally addresses different key matters, equivalent to rural as opposed to city stipulations, ladies and kids within the exertions industry, and self-employment and loved ones businesses, and it identifies priorities for additional research and coverage intervention.

'Making paintings Pay in Nicaragua' may be of curiosity to improvement practitioners in overseas organisations, governments, study associations, and universities with an curiosity in inclusive progress and the construction of effective employment.

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Agriculture, on the other hand, contributed negatively to per capita growth, with two different effects. First, it saw a decrease in output per worker; second, it increased its share of total employment. Given that it has below-average productivity, this shift toward agriculture reduced growth. These results suggest that, had productivity in agriculture and manufacturing not decreased, then value added per worker would have been 5 percentage points higher. The next section tries to provide an understanding of what was happening in manufacturing.

However, changes in overall productivity and employment by sectors can be examined, as well as intersectoral shifts, to further describe the aggregate behavior. 78% Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from national accounts and EMNV. 2 38 Making Work Pay in Nicaragua: Employment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction Decomposition of intersectoral shifts It is possible to understand how changes in the share of employment in the different sectors help explain the overall contribution of intersectoral shifts to per capita growth.

At this rate it would take 23 years to reach a stage at which at least 50 percent of the population had the level of complete secondary education or above. Nicaragua has one of the lowest education levels in Latin America and Central America. 2). If the population transition is to lead to poverty reduction, two policies will need to be at the front of the agenda: increasing good employment opportunities and accelerating educational achievement. Main Trends in Employment Using data from household surveys of 2001 and 2001, it is possible to analyze the main trends in employment.

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