This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty...

Der Bericht gibt aus makroökonomischer und mikroökonomischer Sicht Aufschluss über die Entwicklung der Investitionstätigkeit und die Finanzierung von Investitionsvorhaben in den Ländern Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropas in den letzten zwanzig Jahren. Wir behandeln insbesondere die Fragen,...

This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to examine mobility across six labour market statuses (inactivity, unemployment, firmal wage employment, infirmal wage employment, selfemployment and firming). Our findings are...

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...

The report aims to shed some light on developments in investment activity and investment finance in CESEE over the last twenty years from both macro- and microeconomic perspectives. We pursue in particular questions of why and where investment has declined in the period after the financial...

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working poor and precarious workers, and to the existence of multiple labor-related risks faced by specific groups. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring...

The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing survey and national...