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of focusing on growth or employment, as hitherto, the new development strategy now focuses on elimination of mass poverty …
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An analysis of data from the Eurobarometer finds evidence of the asymmetric effects of macroeconomic performance on happiness. The evidence reveals that the negative effect of an economic recession on happiness can be at least twice the positive effect of economic growth. In short, a single year...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented economic crisis. This article analyses the impact of mandatory social distancing imposed by lockdown policies and voluntary social distancing triggered by COVID-19 fatality rates on GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2020 for a sample...
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States with socialist economic systems also suffer from employment problems, a fact which is frequently passed over in …
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The ILO World Conference on Employment was held in Geneva from June 4 to 17, 1976 and after long discussions adopted an … action programme which provided for quite a number of measures designed to ensure full employment in developing countries … until the year 2000. The problems posed by a policy of full employment in developing countries are indicated in the …
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Unpaid work carried out inside the home has increased in the pandemic, and evidence points to women’s share in care responsibilities and domestic tasks remaining higher than those of men in the pandemic, continuing the gender divides of past decades.
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The European refugee crisis of 2015 has led to a renewed surge of research into how to integrate refugees - as well as family and labour migrants – into European societies and in particular into EU labour markets. The papers in this Forum examine previous research on immigrant integration and...
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