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Sri Lanka : Unemployment, Job Security, and Labor Market Reform
Heltberg, Rasmus; Vodopivec, Milan - 2009
This paper analyzes trends and outcomes in Sri Lanka's labor markets and seeks to assess the likely impacts of labor market reform. A key question is whether the likely losses for some workers from labor market deregulation is justified by gains in the number of jobs? And are potential losers...
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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - 2021
We present evidence from a six-year field experiment with young job seekers in urban labor markets in Uganda. We study how standard labor market interventions impact their search behavior, long run labor market outcomes, and how these long run outcomes are mediated through search behavior. The...
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Jobless Recovery?
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2011
Russia is likely to witness robust but jobless recovery in the short term. Reforms aimed at modernizing public sector, strengthening financial sector, improving investment climate and diversifying the economy have become all the more important as a result of the crisis. The Russian economy is...
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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...
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Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?
Mitra, Devashish - 2009
In this paper, in order to study the impact offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct … a two-sector, general-equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …
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From exodus to employment : labor market transitions and the role of work permits in Colombia
García, Andrés; Mondragón-Mayo, Angie; … - 2025
The Venezuelan migration crisis has led to large-scale displacement, with over 2.5 million Venezuelans seeking refuge in Colombia. This study assesses the impact of the PEP on labor market outcomes for Venezuelan migrants. Using data from the EPM survey and a difference-in-differences...
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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...
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Ekonomska ocena učinkov zapiranja prostocarinskih prodajaln
Damijan, Jože P. - 1999
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Determinants and Persistence of Benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - 2013
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households not...
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