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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
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high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …
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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …
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perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid … largest share of skilled jobseekers opt for early-career employment working for a donor organisation, INGO, or NGO in the … matching' based on measured preferences may be inhibited in contexts where employment possibilities are limited. …
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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …
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The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...
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employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are … responsible for the negative response of employment. …
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depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
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