Artikel
Under-provision of private training by MENA firms: What to Do about It?
This paper shows that firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) provide training to their workers less frequently than firms in other regions and yet seem to be more in need of it. Utilizing firm level data from the Enterprise Surveys for over 100 countries, it attempts to explain that paradox and also identify alternative policy actions that MENA countries might use to substantially increase firm-supplied training by MENA firms. In particular, it points to the potential usefulness of reforms of labor regulations in MENA countries to be less rigid, but also coupling this with stronger enforcement so as to encourage existing firms to be more formal and new firms to enter, grow in size and adopt characteristics more favorable to training over time.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA Journal of Labor & Development ; ISSN: 2193-9020 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 12 ; Pages: 1-29 ; Heidelberg: Springer
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Wirtschaft
Labor Contracts
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
- Subject
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Training
Labor regulations
Enforcement
Middle east
Education-skills mismatch
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Liaqat, Zara
Nugent, Jeffrey B.
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/s40175-015-0034-6
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Liaqat, Zara
- Nugent, Jeffrey B.
- Springer
Time of origin
- 2015
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