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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; … - 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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Job training and job search assistance policies in developing countries
Carranza Noguera, Eliana; McKenzie, David J. - 2023
Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419272
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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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Ekonomska ocena učinkov zapiranja prostocarinskih prodajaln
Damijan, Jože P. - 1999
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The demand for, and impact of, youth internships : evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen
McKenzie, David J.; Assaf, Nabila; Cusolito, Ana Paula - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing and business. Conditional on the types of graduates firms...
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Regional effects of a cluster-oriented policy measure : the case of the InnoRegio program in Germany
Brenner, Thomas; Emmrich, Carsten; Schlump, Charlotte - 2013
This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...
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The impact of vocational training for the unemployed : experimental evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David J.; Almeida, Rita; … - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty : the success of public works programs in reducing poverty depends on their design and implementa...
Zimmermann, Laura - 2014
Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with economic shocks in the short term. But success depends on a scheme's design and implementation. Key design factors are: properly identifying the target population; selecting...
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