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This report delivers evidence-based and practical recommendations on how to better support employment and economic …, which join-up efforts and achieve stronger outcomes across employment, training, and economic development policies. Co …
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global financial crisis. The Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme of the OECD has developed … boosting quality employment. Each country review examines the capacity of employment services and training providers to … Employment and Training Agency (SETA); the Northern Rural and Training and Employment Consortium (NoRTEC); the Southeast Michigan …
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for accessing employment services, streamlining labour market policies, supporting the geographic mobility of less …-educated jobseekers, and removing barriers to employment for its migrant population could serve as building blocks to increase labour … force participation and improve the employment quality of all local talent. …
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authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …
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"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends … in wage inequality, the evidence supports two well-known hypotheses: trade liberalization, other things being equal, (1 …
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"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to...
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consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …
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, have remained high. Hazans explores the mysteries of unemployment in Latvia. He analyzes labor flows between employment …. However, neither ethnicity nor gender seems to matter as far as the transition from employment to unemployment is concerned … methods by the unemployed indicates that two target groups of state employment policy (young unemployed and long …
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"Although there is extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. Beegle, Dehejia, and Gatti evaluate the causal...
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