Transcript of papers presented during the 2nd SAARC Business Conclave held in Mumbai, India, in 2007 organized by South Asia Region of the World Bank in collaboration with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

This study forecasts the Hungarian labor demand for 10 broad economic sectors for 2020. Using aggregate data for the period of 1992-2010 and a structural macroeconomic model, we find that the relative importance of agriculture and industry is likely to fall in total employment while the share of...

This study forecasts the Hungarian labor demand for 10 broad economic sectors for 2015. Using aggregate data for the period of 1992-2010 and a structural macroeconomic model, we find that the relative importance of agriculture and industry is likely to fall in total employment while the share of...

Im Forschungsbericht werden die Ergebnisse eines Kolloquiums vorgestellt. Inhalt: Teil 1. (Steiner, Christine: Bildungs- und Berufswahlverhalten von Jugendlichen und Jungerwachsenen in Ostdeutschland. - Grünert, Holle: Was wissen wir über das Beschäftigerverhalten in Ostdeutschland? - Lutz,...