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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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finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment growth of all firms, particularly micro and small … firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of …
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of -at least initially- strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels. Higher...
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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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Stolper-Samuelson (SS) and Specific-Factors (SF) versions make opposite predictions about the correlation between prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The analysis in this paper provides evidence that may allow one to...
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monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non-labor market … employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that the life skills measures …
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This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing … problems associated with cross-country regressions. This test is based on the hypothesis that employment protection regulations … sectors that are intrinsically more volatile. The paper also finds that employment and value added decline in the most …
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One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the … demand side of the labor market by examining the impact which labor market regulations have had on employment creation in the … on employment determination, using econometric methods. …
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employment and promotes investment due to firms substituting labor by capital. Unions tend to organize in those plants with …
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of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor … depend on several aspects of labor and tax institutions. Payroll taxes reduce employment and increase labor costs when their … employment of medium- and high-education workers. …
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