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Global value chains and trade in value-added : an initial assessment of the impact on jobs and productivity
OECD - 2016
by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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Trade, Poverty and Employment: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
Majeed, M Tariq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
empirical analysis builds on four indicators of economic development that are per capita GDP, inequality, poverty and employment … positive while its effect on employment is negative. Although trade theory predicts that trade openness is the potential source …
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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....
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Poverty and Access to Maternal Health Care Services in Pakistan: Evidence from Perception Based Data
Haq, Rashida; Arshad, Nabeela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Pakistan is on its way to achieving the targets of the fifth Millennium Development Goal in terms of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. However, the rate of decline needs to speed up over the next decade as Pakistan has a high Maternal Mortality Ratio...
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Relative Deprivation in China
Chen, Xi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...
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Poverty and Health in India: A Comparative Study about Pre-Reform and Post-Reform Periods
sarvalingam, a; sivakumar, marimuthu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In India, Economic Reforms has been explicitly started in 1991. Even with some controversy in the initial period now it intruded in almost all the sectors. At present days economic reforms is mingled with every sphere of economic activities. But the effects of economic reforms are highly...
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Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty
Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Sarvalingam, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a...
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Relationship between education, health and crime: fable, fallacy or fact
Qadri, Faisal Sultan; Kadri, Adeel Sultan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is an empirical evaluation of specific criminal activities. The relationship of criminal activities with inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the order of integration, Augmented Dickey Fuller test...
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Health Expenditure, education and Economic Growth in MENA Countries
Lacheheb, Miloud; Med Nor, Norashidah; Baloch, Imdadullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study examines the relationship between health expenditure, education and economic growth in MENA countries using panel data estimation. Our results based on random effect estimation endorse a relationship between health expenditure, education and economic growth. Data were obtained from...
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