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Impacto Económico del programa de Desarrollo Alternativo del Plan Colombia

Hernandez, Gustavo Adolfo; Prada, Sergio; Ramirez, Juan … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Overall, the investment projects of Plan Colombia in its program Alternative Development as evaluated in this work, which are equivalent to a foreign capital inflow of US$ 1164.5 million (for about 4 years) may increase GDP by about 1.2 percentage points, and lead to an increase in employment of...

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The Income Tax Reform in Slovenia: Should the Flat Tax Have Prevailed?

Majcen, Boris; Verbic, Miroslav; Cok, Mitja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In 2007 Slovenia launched a comprehensive reform of its tax system. This article presents an analysis of several envisaged tax reform scenarios, including the flat tax proposal, with a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Slovenian economy, linked to a microsimulation model. We focus mainly...

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Varying the parameters of the Slovenian pension system: an analysis with an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model

Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The article presents an analysis of welfare effects in Slovenia, an analysis of macroeconomic effects of the Slovenian pension reform and an analysis of effects of the pension fund deficit on sustainability of Slovenian public finances with a dynamic OLG general equilibrium model. Stress was...

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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019

The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...

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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement

Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019

Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...

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On-the-job search in italian labour markets: an empirical analysis

Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper analyses the determinants of on-the-job search activities of Italian workers. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) we estimate with a Probit model how individual socio-demographic characteristics and economic variables affect the...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …

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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia

Wesselbaum, Dennis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using Bayesian methods we find that the model does a fairly good job in replicating the data. Surprisingly, we find a large value for the worker’s bargaining power and low vacancy...

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …

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The Italian economy and the global crisis: growth,unemployment and public debt

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper analyzes the problems of low growth, unemployment, especially youth unemployment, and high public debt …

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