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Favourable demographics has boosted Indonesia’s economic growth in recent decades, but its contribution will wane over time. Skills and competences will therefore become increasingly important to raise living standards. Educational attainment has improved considerably, but the quality of...
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Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both labour and product markets. About 20% of the Chilean population aged 15 years and above and working at least 20 hours per week did not have a formal labour contract in 2006. At...
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, the extent of informal employment has increased in many of Mexico's states, though highly heterogeneously. The substantial … differences across states in terms of informal employment can be helpful in explaining differences in economic growth outcomes …. This paper studies the determinants of informal employment using states' diverging outcomes to identify causal factors …
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Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both labour and product markets. About 20% of the Chilean population aged 15 years and above and working at least 20 hours per week did not have a formal labour contract in 2006. At...
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Labour force participation is comparable to the OECD area for prime-age males. It is somewhat lower for females and is trending down for youths as a result of rising school enrolment. The labour market is placing an increasing premium on skills, making it particularly difficult for the less...
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Ce chapitre propose une analyse approfondie des performances du marché du travail français suivant la nouvelle Stratégie pour l’emploi de l’OCDE. Depuis 2015, les créations d’emploi ont fait refluer le chômage et les situations de sous emploi ont diminué, mais le marché du travail...
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and youth employment services enhanced. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Review of France (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/France). …
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This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in Indonesia. The Indonesian labour market is segmented, with a majority of workers engaged in informal-sector occupations, and earnings data are available only for formal-sector...
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Over the past decade, labour market outcomes have improved in India, with net employment rising markedly for the … subject to labour market regulation, and here employment has fallen. The role of employment protection legislation in … affecting employment outcomes is controversial both in the OECD area and in India. This paper looks at the impact of employment …
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empirically-proven to help regain employment; this will require systematic and rigorous evaluation of labour-market programmes and …
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