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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531711
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616925
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623227
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894601
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548832
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A case of ritual compliance? The role of European Structural Funds in the shaping of the Greek employment policy (1995‐2008)
Ioannidis, Yiorgos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The relation of the Greek employment policy to the European one, as it was formulated within EES and the Lisbon strategy, was a particular one. The Greek employment policy fully adopted the form, the structure and the discourse of the EES but it was only marginally influenced by the “way of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271693
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Alcune considerazioni sul mercato del lavoro italiano alla luce della ricostruzione delle serie storiche territoriali per il mercato del lavoro, 1861-2011.
Destefanis, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276369
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259078
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259645