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Fighting employment informality with schooling
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Haanwinckel, Daniel - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …
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Investing Efficiently in Education and Active Labour Market Policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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Informality and Long-Run Growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328942
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Informality and long-run growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230511
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Structural Reforms to Boost Turkey's Long-Term Growth
Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; Saygili, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara...
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Informality and Long-Run Growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733809
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Informality and long-run growth
DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MÜLLER, Tobias; NAVAL, Joaquín - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075062
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Challenges and Opportunities of India's Manufacturing Sector
Joumard, Isabelle; Sila, Urban; Morgavi, Hermes - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...
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Determinants of youth unemployment in Uganda: The role of gender, education, residence, and age
Egessa, Abel; Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Muwanga, James - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29
Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts to poverty reduction. The main objective of the current...
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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - 2013
In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...
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