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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … presence of continued risk factors in Tunisia's labour market resulting from the global financial crisis in 2008 and the Arab … separation decisions remained present in Tunisia's labour market. In addition, the paper looks at various social issues such as …
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Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153311
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment Across Developing Countries
Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022
Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It assembles a harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076711
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Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age : A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment
Deng, Liuchun; Müller, Steffen; Plümpe, Verena; … - 2023
We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favorable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356758
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074198
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2011
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124474
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Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment Among University Graduates : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia
Premand, Patrick - 2012
entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096123
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071447
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On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment : Evidence from Tunisia
Nillesen, Eleonora E. - 2019
attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865858
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, Abdel … - 2021
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
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