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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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Jordan and Tunisia are two non-oil exporting MENA countries characterized by high unemployment rates and significant …. The results show that the global crisis worsened the unemployment situation by increasing labor supply in both countries …
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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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recent years, and permitted unemployment figures to remain low and skill premia not to sink, despite the shift in skill … structure. We run a retrospective simulation, looking at how unemployment and wages would have reacted had skill biased …
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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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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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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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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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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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