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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period. We argue that interactive dynamic systems of labour demand, wage setting, and labour force equations (i) allow for a richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can...
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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990–91 is associated with 2.9 percentage … points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the …
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vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to … the number of unemployed are not very important. Matching frictions are more important for employment during booms than …
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This paper analyzes the trajectories of the Greek public deficit and sovereign debt over the last three decades and their connection to the political and economic environment, paying special attention to the causality between the public and the foreign deficit. The authors argue that, from 1980...
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of the accumulation of Greece's public debt since the 1960s and the role of public debt in the recent crisis. We show …
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private sector insolvency. A minimum wage increase is projected to have a positive impact on output growth and employment …
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