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Tackling Business and Labour Informality in Chile
Contreras, Dante; Mello, Luiz de; Puentes, Esteban - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both … reducing labour informality. To the extent that informal businesses also hire informally, there is some room for designing … policies to tackle business informality in conjunction with those aimed at boosting formal labour contracting. Chile is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045827
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Investing Efficiently in Education and Active Labour Market Policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276911
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Structural Reforms to Boost Turkey's Long-Term Growth
Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; Saygili, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276807
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How Does Decentralised Minimum-Wage Setting Affect Unemployment and Informality?: The Case of Indonesia
Comola, Margherita; Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
The Indonesian labour market is characterised by widespread informality. To some extent, these outcomes can be … incidence of informality in urban areas are estimated separately by fixed effects and jointly by a seemingly unrelated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962264
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Challenges and Opportunities of India's Manufacturing Sector
Joumard, Isabelle; Sila, Urban; Morgavi, Hermes - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276811
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The Determinants of Informality in Mexico's States
Dougherty, Sean; Escobar, Octavio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276971
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Transitions in and out of Unemployment among Young People in the Irish Recession
Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus; Philip O’Connell; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to study the effects of the recession on overall labour market dynamics, little is known about the specific effects on youth unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276920
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Labour Market Performance by Age Groups: A Focus on France
Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age-specific unemployment rates to the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276961
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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland
Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Maintaining high participation and employment in the face of the recent recession and a rapidly ageing population are major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long–lasting scars on labour markets, while rapid ageing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587586
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Matching Skills and Jobs in Estonia
Demmou, Lilas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
The labour market in Estonia is volatile, increasing the risk that groups with some obstacles to enter the labour market (youth, non-Estonian speakers and workers with no upper secondary graduation certificate) may become long-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276856