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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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The topic of the relationship between human capital and economic growth has been intensively examined in empirical studies since the 1980s. Although the positive impact of education and human capital on growth has been repeatedly confirmed, there are still doubts about the strength and probable...
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This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...
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The relation between growth and unemployment is being studied throughout a diverse set of contributions over the last … due to the importance of this relationship as a way to overcome the high unemployment rate that has been characterizing … describing the new theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidence regarding the relationship between growth and unemployment. A …
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In this article, the authors aimed to capture the main features of the labour market in the new EU member states in the current context of economic and financial crisis which put its imprint on the economies of countries analyzed. It could be noted that in the New Member States (NMS), although...
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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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This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100049
unemployment, income inequality, and underemployment. In most of the countries in the region, it was decided to increase labour …
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political institutions and political rivalry on human capital accumulation and income inequality. Relating to the increasing … inequality. As regards the role of political institutions, our analysis suggests that the elasticities of human capital …
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importance of income redistribution for economic growth and the key role of political institutions in securing growth … political institutions and, consequently, distorting efficient redistribution policy. We then define a political …-economic equilibrium as a combination of intermediately strong state and efficient control-rights institutions, implying simultaneous …
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