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An empirical exploration of relationships between official development assistance (ODA) and advances in water and sanitation subsectors
El Khanji, Souha - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-19
This paper explores aid effectiveness by studying the effect of aid, aid volatility, and key development indicators, focusing on safe access to water and sanitation (W&S) in both urban and rural areas. Despite the importance of official development assistance (ODA) for these two subsectors,...
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Formal institutions, informal institutions and entrepreneurial activity: A comparative relationship between rural and urban areas in Colombia
Escandón-Barbosa, Diana Marcela; Urbano, David; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 8 (2019) 3, pp. 458-417
The study of the impact of institutions on entrepreneurship has been a topic of great interest in recent years. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid to the relation that can exist between the spatial context and the entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, institutions and the space of...
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Skill mismatch among migrant workers: Evidence from a large multi-country dataset
Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea; Klaveren, Maarten van - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-34
be more common among migrants compared to native workers, although the incidence differs across migrants depending on the …This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows …. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels are required compared to their education. We …
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Task implementation heterogeneity and wage dispersion
Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea; Steinmetz, Stephanie; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Wage dispersion among observationally similar workers is still only partially unexplained by economists from both a … different occupations is related both to within-occupation wage dispersion and to cross-occupation wage levels: workers in high …
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Taxation of Per Diem. Romanian Current Liabilities for Employers and Employees
Tofan, Mihaela; Bercu, Ana Maria - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 3, pp. 794-801
. The general principle of free movement of labor allowed the employers to send their workers in another member states …
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Introduction to special issue on digitalization, labour and global production
Raj-Reichert, Gale; Zajak, Sabrina; Helmerich, Nicole - In: Competition & Change 25 (2021) 2, pp. 133-141
This special issue contributes to the emerging literature on digitalization and its impact on work and workers in … the use of digital communication technologies and power relationships, working conditions of online workers or crowd-workers …
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Do ethnicity and sex of employers affect applicants’ job interest? An experimental exploration
Granberg, Mark; Ottosson, Niklas; Ahmed, Ali M. - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 54 (2020) 1, pp. 1-10
Starting a business is one way out of unemployment for many people. Having a small pool of job applicants may, however, affect the quality of manpower available to employers. This paper reports the results of an experimental study that examined whether job-seekers discriminate against...
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Firms, sorting, and the immigrant–native earnings gap
Dostie, Benoit - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
Recent research has tried to quantify how firms contribute to the immigrant–native earnings gap. Findings from several countries show that around 20% of the gap is due to firm policies that lead to a systematic underrepresentation of immigrants at higher-paying firms. Results also show that...
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Public financial support to investments in rural areas: The case of the region of Thessaly in Greece
Karafolas, Simeon - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 2, pp. 81-101
Greek governments have supported investments to rural areas financially either by covering part of the investment and/or offering advantages with respect to interest rate loans or tax advantages. This support had been tendered either by nationally financed programs, called Development Laws, or...
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Development of non-governmental organizations in Poland
Brodziński, Zbigniew; Bórawski, Piotr; Dunn, James W. - In: Contemporary Economics 11 (2017) 4, pp. 401-414
The paper presents the results based on the survey about the development of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Poland. The authors present the owner's opinions of NGOs managers. Moreover, the authors presented characteristics of the non-governmental organizations and the area of their...
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