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Income Insecurity, Job Insecurity and the Drift towards Self-employment in SSA
Adams, Abass; Cantah, William Godfred; Wiafe, Emmanuel … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
income insecurity to the proliferation of informal enterprise through job insecurity in selected SSA countries. The study …, Kenya and the DRC. The analyses suggested that income insecurity exist in the form of significant seasonal variations in … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110595
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Une analyse qualitative de l'offre statistique de l'INSÉÉ : travaux préparatoires pour la construction d'une banque de données d'emploi régional
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We often present data bank building (output-data calculation) as an only quantitative work. We think that economist should consider the context where his input-data were built, before to use them in his own data bank (we suggest to make an institutional and a bibliometric analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835539
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Working Profiles and Employment Regimes in European Panel Perspective
Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Using longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyse the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We focus in particular on individuals with a poor attachment to the labour market. The countries under scrutiny are clustered into four ideal-typical welfare regimes. Overall, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835698
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Do countries matter? Explaining the variation in the use of numerical flexibility arrangements across European companies using a Multi-level model
Chung, Heejung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Do countries matter, especially compared to other aspects that affect the flexibility behaviours of companies? Many studies on the labour market assume that there are country differences, cross-national variances, and that it is a crucial factor in explaining the actual practices of the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836421
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Croissance et Emploi en Afrique Subsaharienne:Evidence théorique et Faits Empiriques
Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract This paper provides a theoretical and empirical survey on the link between employment and growth in sub-Saharan Africa countries. Trough this study we shed the light on the majors works that have been done on the subject concerning sub-Saharan Africa and emphasize some stylized facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837021
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A survey on intra-household models and evidence
Xu, Zeyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Intra-household models have achieved significant theoretical development and received considerable empirical support within the past decade. This paper is a comprehensive and updated survey on three most influential categories of intra-household models: the Nash cooperative bargaining settings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837232
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Experience vs. Obsolescence: A Vintage-Human-Capital Model
Kredler, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I combine an infinite-horizon version of Ben-Porath’s (1967) model of human-capital accumulation with a vintage structure as in Chari & Hopenhayn (1991). Different skill levelsinside a vintage are complementary in production. Vintage-specific human capital is accumulated based on workers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837266
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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina
Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837272
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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
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The role of higher education stratification in the reproduction of social inequality in the labour market. A comparative study of recent European graduates
Triventi, Moris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses the role of institutional stratification within higher education (course length, fields of study and institutional quality) in mediating the relationship between social origin and labour market outcomes (wage and occupational status) in a comparative perspective. In the first...
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