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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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Attaining SDG 8 in Azerbaijan : the challenges of economic transformation and job creation
Valiyev, Anar - 2020
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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes
Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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Scaling up aid or scaling down : the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs
Löfgren, Hans; Nielsen, Hannah; Ezemenari, Kenechukwu Maria - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845778
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Can the Paris deal boost SDGs achievement? : an assessment of climate mitigation co-benefits or side-effects on poverty and inequality
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Davide, Marinella - 2017
), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation … contributions, stated in the NDCs, is projected to slow down the effort to reduce poverty by 2030 (+2% of the population below the …
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Labor market regulations : what do we know about their impacts in developing countries?
Betcherman, Gordon - 2014
Labor market regulation is a high-profile, and often contentious, area of public policy. Although these regulations have been studied most extensively in developed countries, there is a growing body of literature on their effects in developing countries. This paper reviews that literature and...
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The macroeconomic dynamics of labor market policies
Hurst, Erik; Pastorino, Elena; Winberry, Thomas; Kehoe, … - 2023
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...
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Do minimum wages in Latin America and the Caribbean matter? : evidence from 19 countries
Kristensen, Nicolai; Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2006
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A minimum income guarantee amidst joblessness & vulnerability : a design for income transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond
Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, … - 2020
Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by the National Sample Survey's employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for the nation's poor seems to be under threat. In response to this, recent schemes inspired by the Universal Basic...
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