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This paper investigates the differences in the matching process of job seekers and vacancies to be filled between different educational and occupational groups. To investigate this issue, matching functions are estimated across different occupations and educational cohorts, that is, on an even...
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, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is …
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …
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There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...
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inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …
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Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...
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of work. The immorality of consigning a portion of the workforce to the degradation of unemployment would be eliminated …
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While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap with regards to the impact of emigration on sending countries. Building on the established literature measuring the impact of immigration, this paper attempts to narrow that...
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