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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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Do bus rapid transit systems improve accessibility to job opportunities for the poor? : the case of Lima, Peru
Oviedo, Daniel; Scholl, Lynn; Innao, Marco; Pedraza, … - 2018
inequalities by improving accessibility to jobs and other opportunities. The Metropolitano, Lima's BRT project at inception, had … examine the contribution of Lima's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to accessibility to employment in the city, particularly for …-Destination surveys before and after the BRT began operations to assess its effects on potential accessibility to employment. Findings …
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Development and application of a state-wide transport model system in Australia
Hensher, David A.; Ho, Chinh - 2023
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Is unemployment always higher when insiders decide?
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000
This paper challenges the traditional view that unemployment is high because insiders determine the union wage. The insiders in this paper are characterized by being more efficient when they search for a job than the outsiders, implying that they experience relatively less unemployment. We...
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"Google it!" : forecasting the US unemployment rate with a Google job search index
D'Amuri, Francesco; Marcucci, Juri - 2010
We suggest the use of an Internet job-search indicator (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our preferred leading indicator (GI), the more standard...
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Youth unemployment challenges in mining areas of Ghana
Sarfo-Mensah, P.; Adjaloo, M. K.; Donkor, P. - 2009
majority of the unemployed youth does not appeal to them because it is considered not lucrative. The acute unemployment …
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Feeling useless : the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco; Mueller, Hannes - 2015
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by...
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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...
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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Grethe, Harald - 2020
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
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Heterogeneous labor impacts of migration across skill groups : the case of Costa Rica
Blyde, Juan S. - 2020
Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native-born workers with similar skills. I use an augmented version of the skill-cell approach to...
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