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This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing …
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There has been a wide acknowledgement of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) for economic growth and development of states, regions and cities. Special attention has been paid to FDI flows to transition economies, which owe their economic and social transformation to a large extent to...
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The need to protect property rights and fight against crime and corruption continues to be an urgent task for authorities in many developing and transition countries. This paper identifies the factors explaining why some enterprises are more likely to be targeted by crime than others, and...
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In December 2007, the Institute for the Economy in Transition (IET) carried out a survey of Russian industrial enterprises to identify their perceived constraints to successful economic development. Senior managers of enterprises were asked to answer 2 groups of questions and to assess: 1)...
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This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …
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classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation …
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina … innovations was observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment composition, there is scant evidence of a skill …, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al …
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This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … which innovation strategies affect employment. The findings show that innovation strategies enhance technological innovation …
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Covers the period from 1975 to 1990 and gives projections to the year 2000. Focuses on two segments of the footwear industry: the production of women's leather footwear and sports footwear. The study is supplemented by an interview survey conducted in eight of the largest export firms.
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- develops a conceptual framework for the economic analysis of employment and income distributional impact of microelectronics …
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