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We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to...
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falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …
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This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …
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employment. A two-country model is used to demonstrate that the open economy dimension can enhance the ability of sticky price … from domestic goods. This causes a temporary decline in domestic employment. If the expenditure-switching effect is …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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inappropriate minimum wage schedules. Both measures made East German production possibilities and employment decline. …
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income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …
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selects on household income. We model whole-household migration and its impacts on income inequality and poverty using a … poverty based on the remaining sample are not necessarily biased. This finding is similar to those in previous research on the … effects of attrition on panel data studies. We also analyze the changes in inequality and poverty due to whole …
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