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and emerging economies using the example of Tunisia. This article is based on a thorough desk review and informal … interviews with TP entrepreneurs and managers in Tunisia. Setting up "ex-nihilo" ten TPs in Tunisia in the mid-1990s was a … the first Mediterranean country to enter in a free trade area with the EU in 1995, Tunisia needed to boost its …
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information. This is important because training costs may be a major obstacle to intra-firm human capital accumulation in Tunisia …
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When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...
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Ce mémoire vient questionner l'accès à l'énergie en Tunisie par le cas du développement du réseau de gaz naturel dans l'agglomération sfaxienne. À la croisée de thématiques comme les services urbains en réseau ou encore la ville durable dans les pays arabes, l'enjeu est ici d'analyser...
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This paper analyzes characteristics of the informal economy in Poland in the context of transition, using a specific survey carried out in the framework of the classic Labour Force Survey, conducted by the Polish National Statistical office (GUS), in 1995. The participation probabilities of...
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We use the demand system approach to estimate the size of informal economy in Turkey following the methodology based on the analysis of the individual consumption behaviour proposed by Pissarides, Weber (1989), Lyssiotou et al. (2004), and Fortin et al. (2009). We extend this method by taking...
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital …
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composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and … employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. …
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This paper analyses the response of labor input to technology shocks in an estimated two-stage production framework with both price and wage stickiness and stage-specific shocks to productivity. Our model features a vertical input-output structure with imperfect mobility of labors across stages....
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