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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get … better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs …, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work …
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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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An optimizing representative firm pays efficiency wages to skilled workers to produce technological innovations, which are assumed to be of labor saving type, affecting negatively the hiring rate of unskilled workers. The results are: i) The efficiency wage of skilled workers is determined by...
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evidences indicating its dynamic character and its instrumental role in ameliorating unemployment and propelling the developing … into the diverse aspects of the ‘multidimensional’ informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labour …
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structural and cohesion funds, removed the trading barriers, increases foreign investments, reduced unemployment, increased labor …
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be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U … implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly …
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financial phenomena, and as a result of globalization, seen both as a process, as well as a phenomenon, which interacts …
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At present, the world economy is at a cross road. The Nigerian economy is therefore undergoing it most severe economic … double digit) as well as experiencing a severe recession (as the unemployment rate has risen astronomically). Consequently, a …
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covering the period from 1991 to 2010. We find a negative effect of the unemployment rate on the divorce rate, pointing to a … characteristics that can vary by country, and/or over time. Results indicate that a one-percentage-point increase in the unemployment … possible non-parametric pattern, confirms a clearly negative relationship between unemployment and divorce in European …
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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …
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