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foreign capital in the urban formal sector on unemployment and social welfare crucially hinge on the relative factor …’s twin objectives of improvement in social welfare and mitigation of the urban unemployment problem. These results are … extremely crucial from the view of policymaking in an unemployment plagued, low-income developing economy. …
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evidences indicating its dynamic character and its instrumental role in ameliorating unemployment and propelling the developing … into the diverse aspects of the ‘multidimensional’ informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labour …
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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and...
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Global recession is likely to hit the skilled sector or the so-called white goods, white collared sector in a typical developing economy. In this paper we try to analyze the impact of such an event on informal wage as the vast majority of the workforce in the developing world is employed in the...
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Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …
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production on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality and unemployment of skilled labour in a developing economy have been analyzed …
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economy using a three-sector general equilibrium model with simultaneous existence off unemployment of both skilled and … mitigates unemployment problem of both types of labour. The paper theoretically justifies the desirability of flow of FDI in …
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