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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
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The literature concerning the effect of tariffs on the inter-industry wage premium has not addressed the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre-reform tariff level as an instrument for the change in...
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Quindío, Colombia, to examine the extent to which poorer households that are eligible to participate are in fact able to do so …
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poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …
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household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …
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constructed for the purpose of investigating the implications of trade liberalization for poverty reduction in South Asia. The … liberalization on poverty reduction. The model’s general equilibrium results suggest that trade liberalization can complement other … specific policy interventions for poverty reduction. …
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empirical analysis builds on four indicators of economic development that are per capita GDP, inequality, poverty and employment … and losers simultaneously and the net welfare impact is negative. As far as eradication of poverty is concerned, it has … been found that trade accentuates, not ameliorates, and that it intensifies, not diminishes, poverty in case of Pakistan …
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The impact of trade liberalization on growth and employment is a much debated and controversial issue. In theory, trade liberalization results in productivity gains through increased competition, efficiency, innovation and acquisition of new technology. Trade policy works by inducing...
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