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Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Labour force survey, the first phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the National Statistic...
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Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Informal Sector survey, the second phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074432
The second wave of the 1-2-3 survey was carried out in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012. It allows for important insights on basic socio-economic indicators for the first time since the first wave was carried out in 2004-2005. The present survey differs from the previous one in that a...
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The impact of trade reforms on the labor market may transit through many channels. One of these is the effect on labor demand elasticity emphasized by Rodrik (1997). No consensus has been established yet in the empirical literature regarding this relationship. This paper attempts to extend the...
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and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants … acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of skill mismatch …
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The article reports that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) economy-sustaining workforce is comprised of foreign nationals that are hired for temporary job positions. This trend is called impatriation, and the practice is the core of international human resources management (HRM). Most economic...
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The objective of this study is to identify factors that explain Malian women position in the labor market. We begin by presenting a theoretical framework that mobilizes three theories explaining women labor market integration: the feminist theory which shows that the disadvantaged women position...
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The purpose of this article is to understand how academics in management deal with the concept of generation in workplace. A conceptual framework of generational diversity was elaborated through an interdisciplinary literature analysis. Four levels of analysis (society, career, organization and...
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The purpose of this paper is to explain why low-wage workers with identical qualifications to higher-wage workers are more exposed to unemployment. Each worker is considered to belong to a social group (defined according to his/her gender, age, and nationality). We assume that workers experience...
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The present paper addresses the scientific reliability and investigates the deployment - actually, more a logical then a chronologic one - of the arguments - ethical, juridical and economical - adopted to sustain, assess and support the dissemination of the diversity policies within the...
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