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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...
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multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and … productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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Broadband plays a key role in society, impacting GDP, productivity, and employment. In the Latin American and Caribbean … associated with 3.19 percent higher GDP, 2.61 percent higher productivity, and 67,016 new jobs. It also defines the variables … that a government can control to help increase the number of broadband subscriptions per capita in order to effectively …
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This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …
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multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and … productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … capital were accompanied by an increase in total factor productivity, especially in sectors where tariff reductions were … larger and unions were not present. The authors found no evidence of varying productivity dynamics across different industry …
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Broadband plays a key role in society, impacting GDP, productivity, and employment. In the Latin American and Caribbean … associated with 3.19 percent higher GDP, 2.61 percent higher productivity, and 67,016 new jobs. It also defines the variables … that a government can control to help increase the number of broadband subscriptions per capita in order to effectively …
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