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The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...
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This research exploits a large employer-level panel dataset in order to analyse employment and worker flows for all establishments in a highly industrialized region in the North- East of Italy, the Veneto. Our results have relevance for models of job creation, job destruction and labour excess...
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In this paper we explore the issues of human capita in Kosova, a country which is characterised by high unemployment …
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This paper examines whether New Zealand residents move from low-growth to high-growth regions, using New Zealand census data from the past three inter-censal periods (covering 1986-2001). We focus on the relationship between employment growth and migration flows to gauge the strength of the...
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unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …
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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …
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are calculated in order to measure so-called low-wage,unemployment and inactivity traps, that is situations where …
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Data on physical capital are an indispensable part of economic growth and efficiency studies. In the case of China, economy-wide fixed asset series are usually derived by aggregating gross fixed capital formation (net of depreciation) over time, and sectoral/ownership-specific series by...
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A merging function synthesizes a vector of numbers (representing measurements, scores or quantitative opinions) into a single number (representing a consensus or collective measurement, score or quantitative opinion). Assuming that all the involved numbers are drawn from a discrete set, it is...
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