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social capital on Irish employment outcomes, while controlling for possible endogeneity. We allow the effects of social … and employment are not endogenous and that ‘weak ties’ matter for employment outcomes, whereas ‘strong ties’ are less …
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This book focuses on the critical role of employment and creation of decent work in facilitating peace in Iraq. It … economic growth leads to productive, remunerative and decent employment. This requires that the ongoing reconstruction … high level of employment and creation of decent jobs. The book also argues that careful consideration should be given to …
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projections and the uncertainty created by the financial meltdown, the outlook for employment has deteriorated considerably. This … after 2-3 quarters. On current policies, the Commission projects employment growth to turn negative during the next two … social safety nets are fully playing their role and a number of new innovative policies are also keeping people in employment …
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since the introduction of globalisation process in terms of employment, labour absorption and the labour market conditions … in India. It is seen that the overall growth rate of the organised sector employment maintained its declining trend from … the period 1977-78 to 1999-2000. The growth rate of the public sector employment declined more than the private sector …
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-based poverty by all measures. In all other exercises employment in market sectors reduces. The study concludes that despite changes … in structure of market employment, gender division of labour remains unequal within household economy. …
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The main question of this paper is: what type of social capital is able to mitigate labour precariousness and to foster human development? This issue has been addressed through a review of the literature and an empirical investigation on the Italian regions. The analysis shows that only bonding...
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This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...
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This paper addresses the gender pay gap among Italian university graduates on entry to the labour market and stresses the importance of gender stereotypes on subjective assessment of individual productivity. Our data show that in contexts where the stereotype is most likely to occur, the...
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When communism collapsed many feared that the resulting 'brain drain' would both cripple the economies of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and finally result in a flow of scientific and technical expertise into undesirable weapon development. A collaborative survey carried out in ten...
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There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....
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