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several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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education and research including university education, vocational, technical, professional and medical education other than … innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global … standards of educational and research practices and for that purpose to establish the National Commission for Higher Education …
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changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change …
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labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …
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developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … impact on labor allocation between formal and informal jobs. These results point to the importance of accounting for …
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Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...
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public firms around the world, particularly wages, benefits, labor composition, education and training, unionization, and …This paper takes advantage of a recent large firm-level dataset to compare labor indicators of privatized, private, and … quality of management. While labor productivity increases after privatization, the ratio of permanent workers to temporary …
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Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of …
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