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employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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This paper aims to estimate the effect of young people who are not in employment, education or training (neets rate) on … the people at risk of poverty rate in the European Union. Statistical data covering the 2010-2016 period for all EU-28 … Squares method, weighted by Period SUR option. The effect of neets rate on poverty rate proved to be positive and …
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At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary …
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the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since …
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significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …
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human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other …
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A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a … satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor … household's probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for …
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