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The deep recession has led to a marked deterioration in labour market conditions in the OECD area. This paper, which draws heavily on other ongoing analytical work at the OECD, takes stock of recent labour market developments, highlights some of the key uncertainties in the early stages of the...
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Social safety nets protect citizens against hardship. By offering compensation, social safety nets may help overcome the political resistance to trade liberalisation and structural reform, but they can also weaken the incentives to work and save. Depending on their design, safety nets may also...
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-markets environment that generates persistent wealth inequalities amongst agents. In this framework, current inflation redistribute wealth … inflation expectations and thus deter the employed from saving and supplying labour. We relate the strength of these two … inflation taxes to the underlying parameters of the model and study how they compete in determining the overall sign and slope …
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In 2007 the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS) which, in a first...
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output-inflation tradeoff equation, whereby inflation shocks raise current output. The limiting impact of mean inflation and …
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Vietnam is one of the only South East Asian emerging economies not to have gone into recession in 2009 in the wake of the world crisis. Nonetheless, it has been affected deeply by the crisis, as shown by all macro-economic indicators. The yearly growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has...
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characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
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detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
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This paper focus on the trade-between work and informal care among individuals aged 50 to 65.We first outlines the standard microeconomic model used to study how individuals allocate their time between labour, parental care and leisure. From the two first-order conditions of the standard model,...
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Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
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