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The paper introduces status as re ecting an agent's claim to recognition in her work. It is a scarce resource: increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status is decreased. Higher status agents are more willing to exert e ort in exchange for money; better-paid agents would...
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paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement among older workers in France and to better understand individual … factors that influence the transition from employment to retirement. From an international perspective, France is an …
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Several similarities explain the spread of the Arab revolutionary process : the polarization of economies to limited sectors, a rentier-based management of resources, very low employment rates and extremely high rates of skilled migration. Finally, a similar external pact with the Western...
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s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
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research using data from other countries, we find that increases in the local unemployment rates are associated with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … elderly fluctuates with the unemployment rate suggests the possible importance of externalities associated with economic …
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graduates’ unemployment in the MENA region. The article provides a prospective cost- effectiveness analysis of the impact of … unemployment through a multisectoral efficiency wage setting mechanism. The main finding is that a wage subsidy targeted at highly … enough to reduce significantly unemployment. Other policy options need to be considered. …
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The writing of a “transversal” report on employment at the OECD is examined by focusing not on the finished product but, instead, on the drafting of the report. This approach allows for exploring the dynamics of power at work inside the OECD. It opens toward broader considerations about how...
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This article focuses on how OECD tackled the question of unemployment in the 1990s and 2000s. How was its credibility … as economic institutional expert affected by such an increasingly serious “problem” ? To what extent did the unemployment …
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