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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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The conflicting evidence over class size effects drawn from observational (or correlational) studies on academic achievement or labor market outcomes has provoked great debate in both academic and public policy arenas. The recent experimental evidence from the United States due to the Project...
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The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...
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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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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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