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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845664
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
of economic growth and the initial state of the economy. Although growth may lead to increasing employment (formal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624
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What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region?
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2015
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining the implications of firm characteristics, national locations, and sectoral associations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347186
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Vietnam's Labor Market Institutions, Regulations, and Interventions : Helping People Grasp Work Opportunities in a Risky World
Schmillen, Achim D. - 2016
Over the past 30 years, Vietnam has experienced significant shifts of employment away from agriculture toward … employers. As a part of all of these measures, Vietnam will also have to renew its efforts to integrate vulnerable groups into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246389
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Does integration policy integrate? : the employment effects of Sweden's 2010 reform of the introduction program
Qi, Haodong; Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik; … - 2019
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a concern about the labour market integration of these newcomers. This paper investigates whether integration policy may improve refugees' labour market performance. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107349
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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household … growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure of the economy map into changes in inequality? We explore dimensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594144
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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540743
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Reforming Non-Tariff Measures : From Evidence to Policy Advice
Cadot, Olivier - 2018
High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade facilitation, and logistics. At least some of these costs can be attributed to non-tariff measures (NTMs), policies imposed by governments other than ordinary customs duties which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644113
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Do's and Don'ts of Trade Policy in the Response to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
Experience from previous global and food crises provides some guidance for appropriate trade responses during the crisis and those that are likely to undermine effective national and global responses. However, the speed, scale and nature of this crisis are unprecedented which requires thinking...
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