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The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These...
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The rising numbers of young people with disability pension concerns many advanced economies. We present results from a comparative analysis of Sweden and Norway, two countries which are very similar in many respects, but differ regarding the policy mix to enhance the employability of the work...
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Survey respondents in fourteen countries representing 62% of the world's Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with urban poverty. These results are...
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In this paper we estimate the amount of tax evasion in customs authorities in both Kenya and Tanzania by calculating … measurement error is correlated with the tax rates in both Kenya and Tanzania. According to the Transparency International … Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is more corrupt than Tanzania, but we find that the coefficient on tax is higher in Tanzania …
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Kenya has ascribed to the Millennium Declaration and is already in the process of mobilising resources and instituting … measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made … requirements are not extremely large to reach the MDGs in Kenya. If the resources are effectively used and targeted to MDG sectors …
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The recent hike in food prices has been of great concern to policymakers, international organisations and donor agencies. In this paper we discuss, both from a partial and general equilibrium perspective, the impact of the recent price increase on maize on Kenyan households. Simulating a 100%...
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This paper determines which children work and how much children work in Kenya. The results show that the educational …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …
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In Kenya, educational enrollment rates increased significantly for both girls and boys after 2003, when primary … intercept probit model using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey 2005/06 reveal that Somali and Maasai …
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