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Statistical evidence from 58 countries shows that although people in rural areas are more likely to be in employment … minimum wages or seek to promote equal opportunities, can help to reduce labour market-related inequalities across the rural …
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Interest in the topic of well-being has burgeoned in recent years as the weaknesses of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as a proxy for well-being have become more apparent. At the same time, the global economy has experienced a productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is...
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employment) at an adequate level of pay would require about 0.3 per cent of GDP of annual investment by 2035. Extending universal …
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Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality into mean, dispersion, and price components. The...
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adopted EU Commission's proposal for a Directive on adequate minimum wages was supported by a detailed analysis of the social … income in the EU, beyond their national effects. Assuming no employment effects, static simulation results show that a … detectable also in market incomes. In turn, the withdrawal of social benefits because of higher minimum wages seems to neutralise …
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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility has evolved in the United States of America. We show...
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The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation...
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This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...
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This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates … and wages. Their labour market exit risk is relatively low, occupational and sectoral changes are least common and, in the …
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