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Female labour supply in india: proximate determinants

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...

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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity

Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact on financial incentives to work and on labour supply. Many Member States have introduced policies to “make work pay” and have targeted low-wage workers with the aim of...

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Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Claar, Victor V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...

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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …

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A Decade of Economics Reforms: Whither Employment?

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period. The workforce structure is exhibiting upward mobility across wage classes, moving towards regular employment, and...

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Women Employment in The New Economy: Clouds and Some Sunshine

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

entry barrier. Most of the gender differences in wages are due to discrimination and only a small part is attributable to …

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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …

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Regional Disparities in Wage Employment Dynamics: A Decade of Economic Reforms in India

Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special emphasis on the regional dimension. The workforce...

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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity

Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …

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Global financial crisis and return of South Asian Gulf migrants: patterns and determinants of their integration to local labour markets

Abraham, Vinoj; Rajan, Irudaya S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Studies record that a large number of South Asian migrant workers in the Middle–East had to return to their home countries owing to the global financial crisis and loss of jobs. However, their distress of loss of job in the gulf is compounded by the fact that in their own home countries the...

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