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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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among firms affects simultaneously growth and unemployment. On the one hand, an increase of the elasticity of substitution …
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This paper studies the secular behavior of worker reallocation across occupations in the US labor market. In the empirical analysis, we use 45 years of microdata to construct consistent time-series and document that the fraction of employment reallocated annually across occupations is remarkably...
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Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now...
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Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special emphasis on the regional dimension. The workforce...
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States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …
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While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow that gap by investigating whether the large and intense...
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Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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