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Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia
Goldring, Thomas; Ribar, David C. - 2024
known about disparities in the characteristics of those services. This study uses weekly subsidy records from Georgia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507887
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
current virtue. -- Productivity ; reallocation ; industry dynamics ; creative destruction ; reform ; transition ; Georgia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Temporary labour migration and welfare at the new European fringe : a comparison of five Eastern European countries
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2009
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832067
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Tax reform in Georgia and the size of the shadow economy
Torosyan, Karine; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012
in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency demand approach based on macro level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629605
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No education, no good jobs? : Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen (contributor); Stampini, Marco (contributor) - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603607
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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate statistics and data from a representative household survey fielded in 1996 …-1997. The paper finds that in Georgia the labor market has shown outstanding flexibility during a period of severe political and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391608
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Inequality and income distribution in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
In the period of macroeconomic crisis in Georgia between 1991 and1994 the combination of hyperinflation, catastrophic … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … money income in Georgia is comparable to highest inequality countries of Latin America (Gini equals 0.6). However, given the …
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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited
Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413090
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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203