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. At over 15 percent, the unemployment rate in the country is high by European standards. Georgia faces three main labor …
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"The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-East European transition economies … and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of Germany). The first hypothesis (H1) is that unemployment is caused by … inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is …
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dwellers to transition into the formal housing sector, which has the dual benefits of improving service access and escaping … social stigma. In this paper the authors investigate residential mobility among slum dwellers in Bhopal, India. Their … household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers …
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congestion costs in cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits. Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor … mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly improve …
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staying in agriculture, although growth is always higher in any sector if one physically moves. Economic mobility is strongly … linked to geographic mobility. The puzzle is why more people do not move if returns to geographic mobility are high. The …
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written by leading academics in index number theory and by recognised experts in RPPIs compilation. Its development has been …
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European Union labor markets, interregional migration is low, and capital seems to move toward high wage and low unemployment … regional disparities, focus on removing barriers to mobility, review existing institutions for implementing regional policy …
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"There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than...
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