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Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance
Almeida, Rita - 2005
"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors...
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Improving the Business Climate in Macedonia : A Legal and Judicial Enforcement Assessment
World Bank - 2005
The objective of this Legal and Judicial Enforcement Assessment is to identify the main judicial, legal, legislative, and institutional constraints on the enforcement of contract, creditor, and property rights in Macedonia, and to integrate the Macedonian Government's Judicial Reform Strategy...
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Kenya - Economic Development, Police Oversight, and Accountability : Linkages and Reform Issues
World Bank - 2012
The objective of this study is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on police reform in Kenya, where poor police … police performance, the government of Kenya concluded that the reform program achieved only limited success: the country is … focused on addressing the chronic lack of public confidence in the police and the persistence of corruption at all levels of …
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Globalization, wages, and the quality of jobs : five country studies
Robertson, Raymond (contributor) - 2009
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Involving workers in East Asia's growth
1996
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Smoke-Free Workplaces
World Bank - 2012
Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases; cancers of the lungs, mouth, larynx, bladder, pancreas, kidneys and stomach; emphysema, bronchitis, and tuberculosis. These diseases cause...
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Lao PDR - Labor Standards and Productivity in the Garments Export Sector : A Survey of Managers and Workers
World Bank - 2012
This report describes labor practices in the Lao garments export sector as seen by both management and labor. The main objective of this report is to present the differing perspectives on working conditions between managers and workers, and to explore ways in which the Lao garment sector could...
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Turkey : policies and prospects for growth
Dubey, Vinod (contributor) - 1980
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Life chances in Turkey : expanding opportunities for the next generation
Hentschel, Jesko (contributor) - 2010
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …
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