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s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
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characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
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detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
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Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
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Over the last two decades the Egyptian labor market has undergone major changes that the social claims of the January 2011 revolution brought to light. Among them, lack of job security and associated weak social protection have been particularly criticized. Therefore the aim of this article is...
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an economic crisis to isolate the impact of migration on local unemployment. The impact of the crisis on education … one of the main determinants of the unemployment increase and that remittances have a higher impact than the variation of … emigration flows. The low skilled bear the highest costs in terms of unemployment and wage decline. …
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Jordan and Tunisia are two non-oil exporting MENA countries characterized by high unemployment rates and significant …. The results show that the global crisis worsened the unemployment situation by increasing labor supply in both countries …
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This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia’s labor market institutions, particularly the Plan … Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …
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This study contends that in Mexico there is a threshold above which drug-trafficking-related violence causes a general slowdown in the economy. Before that threshold is reached, firms and individuals pay for the increase in violence via protective security costs, a decision that is reflected in...
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The formality status of a job is the most widely used indicator of job quality in developing countries. However, a number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion. This paper uses job satisfaction data from three...
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