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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy

Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...

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The Impact of Exogenous Asymmetry on Trade and Agglomeration in Core-Periphery Model

Sidorov, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

: international trade and agglomeration processes. First setting implies that the industrial labor is immobile, while second one … function, transportation costs and degree of asymmetry in initial labor endowment. As for agglomeration process, it was found … that the asymmetry in the population distribution simplifies pattern of agglomeration, making the direction of migration …

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What do we know about clusters? In search of effective cluster policies

Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Geographical clusters are in the focus of a large breadth of literature and have been discovered as a preferred policy tool by policymakers around the world. The vast literature suggests differing explanations for the advantages clusters offer to constituent firms. Yet not all of these...

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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.

Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and employment for...

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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

attributed to aggregate proxies of agglomeration externalities. Our data further support the assortative matching hypothesis …. This rich database allows us to contribute at opening the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro … matching is negatively related to local market size. …

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A case of ritual compliance? The role of European Structural Funds in the shaping of the Greek employment policy (1995‐2008)

Ioannidis, Yiorgos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The relation of the Greek employment policy to the European one, as it was formulated within EES and the Lisbon strategy, was a particular one. The Greek employment policy fully adopted the form, the structure and the discourse of the EES but it was only marginally influenced by the “way of...

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Alcune considerazioni sul mercato del lavoro italiano alla luce della ricostruzione delle serie storiche territoriali per il mercato del lavoro, 1861-2011.

Destefanis, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This note is intended to provide an initial assessment of the potentialities of the data reconstruction work, relating to labour market series, carried out as part of the SVIMEZ volume for the Sesquicentennial of the Unification of Italy. To this end, we develop some considerations on a key...

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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia

Wesselbaum, Dennis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using …

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Stochastic Volatility in the U.S. Labor Market

Dennis, Wesselbaum - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In state-of-the-art macroeconomic and labor market models shocks are assumed to be homoscedastic. However, we show that this assumption is much too restrictive. We �find signifi�cant evidence for strong time-varying volatility in all considered labor market time series. First, we estimate...

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Gender effect in explaining the mobility patterns in the labor market: a Case study from Turkey

Eryar, Değer; Tekgüç, Hasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the importance of gender on different job mobility patterns using an extensive household survey data from İzmir, third largest city in Turkey. The determinants of job-to-job and job-to-non-employment transitions are analyzed with the help of a multinomial logit estimation...

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