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Divergence in Labour Force Growth : Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas - 2020
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Azam, Mehtabul - 2012
(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …
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The Informal Labour Market in India : Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2006
children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper …
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The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India
Prakash, Nishith - 2021
India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …
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The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India
Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021
This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated …
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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and its Impact on the Labor Market
Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael - 2022
in Asia. The key contributors to this trend are China and India. Between 2011 and 2019, GDP per capita has surged by 66 … percent in China and 53 percent in India. Forecasts by the OECD predict that between 2030 and 2035, India will overtake China … implications that are associated with the rise of a growing middle class on India's labor market …
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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...
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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Guzi, Martin - 2015
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...
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