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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating … particular, on the initiative of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) was established. This is a … on problems related to youth employment and unemployment. This paper aims to provide a contribution to debate on the …

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The Challenge of Youth Unemployment

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents an overview of the youth unemployment problem and youth employment policy principally from the … nature and caiuses of youth unemployment, it is shown thatbthe basic cause of youth unemployment is insufficient aggregate … demand rather than high youth wages or the size of the youth cohort, and suggests that a successful strategy for dealing with …

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Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics

Waite, Matthew; Will, Lou - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents an analysis of self-employed contracting in Australia. The analysis covers all self-employed contractors, including dependent and independent contractors. The paper finds that self- employed contractors have become more common in Australia over the past 20 years. In August...

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'Knowledge-preneurs': Self-employment in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Industry

Carson, Jamie - EconWPA - 2005

Amid the dynamics of the labour market in the 1990's, two growth areas stand out: self-employment (when analyzed by class of worker) and knowledge industries (when analyzed by sector). In this paper, we combine these two perspectives to explore self-employment in the Professional, Scientific and...

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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges

Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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Denominational Schism: An Economic Perspective

Karacuka, Mehmet; Leroch, Martin - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we present an economic model contributing to the explanation of religious schism, a topic mostly dealt with in the fields of sociology and psychology so far. The main idea is to see religious groups as networks. These networks may serve as a device for exchanging information about...

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Religion

Rossi, Maximo; Rossi, Ianina - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper is a first attempt to measure and explain, from an economic perspective, the religious behavior of uruguayans (women in this stage), and compare the results with those obtained for some Latin American and developed countries. In this first stage, the efforts were concentrated...

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DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGY AND INCOME INEQUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Milanovic, Branko; Gradstein, Mark; Ying, Yvonne - EconWPA - 2003

/mixed Christian and societies without a dominant religion. In addition, we find a strong evidence that, controlling for the level of …

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The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

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