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A Comparison of Countries' Development Indexes and Their Tennis Performance
Vyas, Aaryaman - 2017
Be it Olympics or tennis or any other sport, we see that few countries always have greater representation on the medals tally. Tennis is a sport that demands a high level of hard work and investment not just in coaching, but also for its accessories. ATP and WTA are two professional bodies that...
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy : A Labour Market Approach
Bouev, Maxim - 2004
This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence of the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to 'go underground' is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090760
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Making Trade Policy Work for the Poor : Shifting from Dogma to Detail
Nye, Howard; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic theory and empirical evidence. We conclude that, while there certainly are circumstances under which greater trade openness can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054628
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Setting the minimum wage
Boeri, Tito - 2009
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269572
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Setting the minimum wage
Boeri, Tito - 2009
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879369
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A Seattle Game Changer?
Bourne, Ryan - 2018
The traditional theoretical view of minimum wage laws is that, because labor markets are competitive, the laws hurt employment while delivering little benefit to workers as a group. Empirical research has generally supported this view, finding that minimum wage increases are followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923985