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Teachers’ Retirement Age Act: Tenure and Teacher Quality in Nigeria

Taiwo, Kayode - 2024

Education is crucial to national development and teachers are the principal component in educational production. Teacher quality manifests in student achievements and educational outcomes Improving the quality of education rests on attracting and retaining good teachers who can help students...

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Japanese women doctors in the hospital system: Gender gap, professional burnout, and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Bayari, Celal - 2025

Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...

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Labor Market Flexibility and FDI Flows: Evidence from Oil-Rich GCC and Middle Income Countries

Mina, Wasseem; Jaeck, Louis - 2015

In this paper we empirically examine the impact of labor market flexibility on FDI flows to oil-rich GCC and compare it to middle income countries in 2006-2011. We account for potential endogeneity and nonstationarity and adopt system GMM and IV estimation methodologies. Our findings show that...

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The Japanese Management and Production System in Australia Recruitment, Training and Bonus in Japanese Hybrid Factories

Bayari, Celal - 2011

Japanese manufacturers have reconstituted the Japanese management and production system in Australia at different levels of success since the late 1960s (Hutchinson and Nicholas 1994, Nicholas and Purcell 2001, Purcell et al. 1999). Three of the essential elements of the Japanese system,...

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Job Polarisation in India: Structural Causes and Policy Implications

Kuriakose, Francis; Kylasam Iyer, Deepa - 2018

Automation impacts employment and wage levels at the micro-level, and the structure of employment-shift at the macro-level. Job polarisation is defined as the automation of ‘middle-skill’ jobs that require routine cognitive and manual applications while high and low-skill occupations are...

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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - 2005

Is it true that communist countries had well-developed human capital, or is it just a myth? What were human capital stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We attempt to answer these questions using evidence from...

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Fiscal Policy, as the “Employer of Last Resort”: Impact of Direct fiscal transfer (MGNREGA) on Labour Force Participation Rates in India

Chakraborty, Lekha S; Singh, Yadawendra - 2018

NSS Employment-Unemployment survey, we examined gender differential impacts of MGNREGS on labour force participation rates …

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Does Employment Protection Legislation Induce Structural Unemployment? Evidence from 15 OECD Countries

Afful, Efua Amoonua - 2014

This paper estimates the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for 15 OECD economies from 1990 to … unemployment. Using Prais-winsten estimation correcting for panel-level heteroscedasticity a panel-specific first … implication is that deregulation is not a necessary policy tool in addressing the problem of structural unemployment. …

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Does Employment Protection Legislation Induce Structural Unemployment? Evidence from 15 OECD Countries

Afful, Efua Amoonua - 2014

This paper estimates the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for 15 OECD economies from 1990 to … implication is that deregulation is not a necessary policy tool in addressing the problem of structural unemployment. …

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Study of Instruments and Tools to Anticipate the Effects of Industrial Change - Portuguese report

Moniz, António; Dinis, Marco - 1996

This study was produced for the “Study of Instruments and Tools to anticipate the effects of industrial change on employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It started when the previous Portuguese government was...

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