We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia.
Highlights • Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. • This brief introduction to economic complexity summarizes key t
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
Public statistics on local economic activity, provided by the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Federal Reserve System (FRS), and state agen
As the COVID-19 crisis lingers, emerging market and developing economies are entering perilous waters that evoke memories of past debt defaults.
After a large growth acceleration within the context of the commodity supercycle (2000-2015), Namibia has been grappling with three interrelated challenges: economic growth, fiscal sustainability, and
This report aims to answer the critical but difficult question: "What will it take for Jordan to grow?" Though Jordan has numerous active growth and reform strategies in place, they do not clearly ans
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.
I discuss the multifaceted economic and financial vulnerabilities that have been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic on a foundation of already weak economic fundamentals in many countries
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID-1
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