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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery : A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey immediately after the removal of lockdown measures in Vietnam, a … optimism about the resilience of the economy. Further disaggregating employment into different types of jobs such as self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831969
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What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Fakih, Ali - 2015
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining the implications of firm characteristics, national locations, and sectoral associations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013595
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Growth with Equity : Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
Benjamin, Dwayne - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household … growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure of the economy map into changes in inequality? We explore dimensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978153
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Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation : Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; Nguyen, … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255737
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Preventing Neets During the Great Recession : The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients
Emile, Cammeraat - 2017
We study the impact of a mandatory activation program for young welfare recipients in the Netherlands. Introduced at the end of 2009, the goal of the program was to prevent so-called NEETs (individuals not in employment, education or training). We use a large administrative data set for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945222
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Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms Towards Flexicurity : Evidence from OECD Countries
Görg, Holger - 2018
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906470
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121759
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054924
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Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2019
This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870335
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007.We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024924