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This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in the labour matching process, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented when workers of a specific...
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We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment duration. In particular we investigate to which extent those schemes, through employment services and search requirements, can offset the expected perverse effect of benefits on...
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Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, we hypothesize that workers who had a temporary contract before the spell of unemployment will experience...
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This paper aims at estimating the impact of search strategies (effort and search channels) on unemployment duration. A two-step microeconometric application is used. First, the choice process of search strategies (number and type of search media used) is analysed. Second, competing risk models...
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The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between …-component inequality. Specifically, inequality in education and health expenditure components were the largest contributors to overall …
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inequality in the early 2000s. Using fixed-effect regression to avoid endogeneity bias and allowing for different effects of … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …
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This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …
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program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … Vietnam’s inequality was significant but small, which is not surprising because of the yet limited outreach of seven percent …
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This paper studies multi-dimensional aspects of deprivation associated to the living conditions and inequality status …
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This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
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