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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
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demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
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prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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