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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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Revisiting the Apparent Paradox: Foreign Capital Inflow, Welfare Amelioration and ‘Jobless Growth’ with Agricultural Dualism and Non-traded Intermediate Input
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In order to answer the pertinent question why developing countries are showing penchant for foreign capital over the last two decades in spite of its detrimental effects as revealed from the conventional two-sector mobile capital version of Harris–Todaro (HT) model in the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294936
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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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Інституціональна пастка: моделювання ринку праці в Україні
Filippova, Irina; Balakhnin, Hary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
An institutional trap emerges in the gap between actual wage rate in Ukraine and the wage that provides the growth in working-age population. This activates the mechanism of demographic trap.
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Child Labor at District Level: A Case Study of Rawalpindi
Kulsoom, Rafia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Child labor is one of the problems that occur as a result of responses to the economic problems faced by vulnerable children. Keeping in view the theoretical background of existence of child labor across the world, the study analyzes the incidence of child labor from Rawalpindi city of Pakistan....
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Male Worker Migration and Women Empowerment: The case of Bihar, India
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Anjani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Migration of population has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities....
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Real Wages, Wage Inequality and the Regional Cost-of-living in the UK
Cinzia, Rienzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
) and overestimates the cost-of-living for “cheaper” regions (Northern Ireland, Scotland). When deflating hourly wages by … the regional RPI, the average level of wages is lower from 8% to 11% an hour for all workers in London and the South East …% in levels when deflating wages by the real regional RPI. …
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The effect of local ties, wages, and housing costs on migration decisions
Michaelides, Marios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Previous research on migration has focused more on the effect of wage differences between the destination and the origin on migration and less on how non-pecuniary attachments workers have to their current location may affect their migration decisions. In this paper, we examine how the presence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619164
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Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Implicit values of amenities and the quality of life in an area can be measured by differences in “real wages” across … areas, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences …
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The General Equilibrium Wage Impact of Trade-Induced Shifts in Industrial Compositions of Employment in Brazilian Cities, 1991-2000
Mardukhi, Jian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
wage only through changes in employment shares of industries used as weights on constant industry wages. On the contrary … industrial composition sizably impacts all industry wages through general equilibrium (G.E.) feed-backs from the average wage … – as a reservation wage in all industries in a search and bargaining framework – onto all industry wages. In particular …
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