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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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This paper attempts to empirically explore the effects of trade liberalization process in Tunisia on average real wages and wage inequality, via industry rents. For this purpose, we adopt, following Revenga (1997), a flexible model of wage setting that can accommodate both the presence of...
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We are interested in the relation between Gini coefficients of education, educational variables, and growth. We specify a system of 14 difference equations with lagged dependent variables in education variables, as well as a growth regression, auxiliary equations for savings and investment...
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This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions and economic growth. We …, Johnson and Robinson. We discuss the work of Rodrik and others who focus on institutions and institutional reform and take … new theoretical frameworks by North, Wallis and Weingast and Khan that relate the structure of institutions to short …
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institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …
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recipient's level of income or quality of institutions and policies; we find that short-impact aid causes growth, on average … with stronger institutions or longer life expectancies (better health). We also find a significant negative relationship …
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In a simple theoretical framework, the quality of institutions affects individual’s investment decisions, and hence … income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … redistributive taxation to maintain political support. The quality of institutions and the extent of redistribution depend on the …
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This article aims at supplying an interpretative frame of the long-term Malagasy trajectory by redrawing the structuring knots of its political economy. The concomitance of periods of economic expansion and political crises leash indeed to suppose that one of the essential sources of the...
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This paper studies the co-movements of unemployment and labor productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Measures of co …
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graduates’ unemployment in the MENA region. The article provides a prospective cost- effectiveness analysis of the impact of … unemployment through a multisectoral efficiency wage setting mechanism. The main finding is that a wage subsidy targeted at highly … enough to reduce significantly unemployment. Other policy options need to be considered. …
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