In mid-2008, high employment and low unemployment rates characterised the Estonian labour marketin comparison with the average of the EU15 countries. While aggregate outcomes improvedduring 2000-07, large inequalities persisted across regions, ethnic groups, and workers with different...

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...