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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Is it true that communist countries had well-developed human capital, or is it just a myth? What were human capital stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We attempt to answer these questions using evidence from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325662
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Does Employment Protection Legislation Induce Structural Unemployment? Evidence from 15 OECD Countries
Afful, Efua Amoonua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper estimates the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for 15 OECD economies from 1990 to … unemployment. Using Prais-winsten estimation correcting for panel-level heteroscedasticity a panel-specific first … implication is that deregulation is not a necessary policy tool in addressing the problem of structural unemployment. …
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Study of Instruments and Tools to Anticipate the Effects of Industrial Change - Portuguese report
Moniz, António; Dinis, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
This study was produced for the “Study of Instruments and Tools to anticipate the effects of industrial change on employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It started when the previous Portuguese government was...
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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal
Moniz, António; Woll, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790119
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Overview of Firm-Size and Gender Pay Gaps in Turkey: The Role of Informal Employment
Akar, Gizem; Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper documents two new facts linking firm-size and gender pay gaps to informal employment using micro-level data from Turkey. First, we show that the firm-size wage gap, defined as larger firms paying higher wages to observationally equivalent workers, is greater for informal employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113781
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Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? An international comparison
Escudero, Veronica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
, supported employment and direct job creation measures show the most favourable results, both, in terms of reduced unemployment … reducing unemployment than other ALMP policies. Moreover, the positive effects seem to be particularly beneficial for the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110676
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Основные направления развития трудового потенциала в условиях рынка труда Сибири
Karpov, Valery - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the Siberian labor market regulation, including the deepening of market segmentation based on several criteria: the availability of alternative forms of employment; different rates of release and quality of employees; qualifications of employees;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110817
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A Matching Method with Panel Data
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method to measure the impact of an intervention in health as well … simple matching method is proposed to measure impact of an intervention using two-period panel data after the intervention. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493288
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Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs using Difference-in-differences with Matching
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method in impact evaluation. Traditional impact evaluation methods … including difference-in-differences with matching often deal with impact measurement of a single binary program. Imbens (1999 …) and Lechner (2001) extend the matching method to the case of multiple mutually exclusive programs. Frölich (2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565091
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Medium and Long-Term Participation in Microcredit: An Evaluation Using a New Panel Dataset from Bangladesh
Islam, Asadul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
strategies including triple-difference and propensity score matching methods to control for selection bias. The impact estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565100