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Employment in Romania: evidence from a panel data analysis
Vasilescu, Denisa Maria; Aparaschivei, Larisa; Roman, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
labour market strategy aims at achieving 75% employment rate by 2020, for Romania the objective being 70% (Europe 2020 … might be partly responsible for the slow progress of employment rate in Romania. In this context, we aim to examine the … employment rate in Romania, considering a panel data analysis over the period 1996-2009. The explanatory variables are the net …
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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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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity
Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
maintain high levels of employment and participation rates, especially among female and older workers, and to reduce structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565130
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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model
Jun, Bogang; Hwang, Won-Sik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259657
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Education and specialized training - ways to increase performance in agriculture
Marin, Ancuta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper makes a brief analysis of education in general and of agricultural profile in particular, and highlights existing problems, and the ways to improve them, in order to increase performances in agriculture. The economic development of a country requires transformations qualitative,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150770
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New measures of workforce skills in the EU
Kang, Lili; O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents new data series designed to yield a more complete picture of the growth in average skill levels embedded in the EU workforce, comparing with competitor countries such as the US and China. Harmonised data from EU surveys are employed to extend coverage in existing databases to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108113
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The long-run Relationship between Human Capital and Economic Growth in Sweden
Awel, Ahmed Mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between education and economic growth has been one of the fundamental themes of economic analysis. Despite the growing interest in the relationship between growth and education, and despite the strong theoretical foundations for a key role of education/human capital in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108298
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Fixing Europe's youth unemployment and skills mismatch, can public financial support to SMEs be effective? The case of the European Commission and European Investment Bank joint in...
Floreani, Vincent Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
concessional loans provision to SMEs as a strategy to bolster youth employment and training opportunities.Starting with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109161
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Intergenerational mobility, composition of human capital and distance to frontier
Basu, Suajta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
An economy can improve its technology level through two channels -- imitating from the world technology frontier and innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based on the endogenous ability-driven skill acquisition...
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Framework for Human Capital Development in Nigeria: A Public-Private Partnership Approach.
Akande, Emmanuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the framework for human capital development in Nigeria through a public-private partnership (PPP) approach. No doubt, population of a country determines the subsisted human capital resources and this in turn determines the economic status of such country. Therefore, human...
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