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Consequências da flexibilidade
Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
deterioration of employment and working conditions, through the reduction of labour costs and a deregulated market. The flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790090
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The Trade-Off Between Child Labor and Schooling: Influence of Social Labeling NGOs in Nepal
Chakrabarty, Sayan; Grote, Ulrike; Lüchters, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Does the labeling of products which have been produced without any child laborers contribute to increased welfare of children? This paper presents some results of a survey in Nepal conducted to analyze which factors determine the probability of a child to work, and to examine the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835691
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Overworked Greeks? Working time trends in Greece
Mavroudeas, Stavros; Ioannides, Alexis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Today there is increasing evidence supporting the claim that an increasing number of workers around the world are overworked. Although, many researchers have raised the issue of the longer working time, it is usually considered a non-European phenomenon. This paper disputes this perception with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476384
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The effect of unfair dismissal laws on small and medium sized businesses
Harding, Don - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
employment of unfair dismissal laws. The report also provides a discussion of the evidence on the welfare effects of unfair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790284
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Croissance Economique et Marché du Travail au Cameroun
Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
How do Growth affects labor market’s work? This question is important, because, labor market plays a key role in determining the success of poverty reduction policies. Using the times series data, we have been able to confirm the prediction of theory which present a positive effect of growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621433
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Female labour supply in india: proximate determinants
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259044
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Analyzing Washington state's welfare program design, workfirst
Axelsen, Dan; Snarr, Hal W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
variety of objectives including skills training, temporary subsidized employment, and mentoring. WorkFirst’s objective is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654245
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Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high?
Gray, Matthew; Renda, Jenny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
important factor in explaining relatively low employment rates among mothers by comparing reservation hourly wages with the … labour market, then this is likely to make it difficult to find employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616944
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Family labor supply, precautionary behavior, aggregate saving and employment
Santos Monteiro, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
I study the impact of idiosyncratic earnings uncertainty on aggregate saving and employment in an economy populated by … equilibrium. In particular there might be one equilibrium with high (female) employment and low savings and another one with low … employment and high savings. The model suggests that aggregate saving and employment rates should be negatively correlated across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617017
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Demographic pressure, excess labour supply and public-private sector employment in Egypt - Modelling labour supply to analyse the response of unemployment, public finances and welf...
Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
employment dividend can be reaped by productivity growth increases if the labour market starts functioning. The findings also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025325