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The replacement of payroll tax by a tax on revenues: A study of sectorial impacts on the Brazilian economy

da Silva, Wilton Bernardino; Paes, Nelson Leitão; … - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 1, pp. 46-59

A topic of current research in discussion about the Brazilian economy is the exemption from payroll taxes, which aims to stimulate competitiveness of the firms, boosting economic growth. This topic was introduced in Brazil by new laws that proposed replacing the payroll tax with a new tax on...

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The mortality crisis in transition economies

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

of how the transition from a low to a high socio-economic level can generate huge social costs if it is not actively …

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Tabus verzögern Wirtschaftsreformen in Syrien

Binzel, Christine; Brück, Tilman; Handrich, Lars; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 7, pp. 69-74

Syrien steht mitten in einem wirtschaftlichen Reformprozess. Dieser ist notwendig, da die Ölreserven zur Neige gehen, wodurch die Leistungsbilanz stark negativ geworden ist. Gleichzeitig ist die Unterbeschäftigung hoch und das Pro-Kopf-Einkommen stagniert. Subventionen und Zahl der...

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Labor reallocation and firm growth: Benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-22

This paper uses firm-level survey data to study labor reallocation and firm growth in the transition countries over … comparable surveys of developed market economies. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence in the transition … countries that joined the European Union in 2004 than in the other, lower-income transition economies. We also find evidence of …

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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan

Mussurov, Altay; Arabsheibani, G. Reza - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-19

We use data from the Kazakhstan Labour Force Survey (KLFS) for the period 2006-2011 to examine factors that determine informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the recent global crisis. The decomposition suggests...

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Performance management system implementation in a Southeast European transitional country

Jankulović, Aleksandar; Škorić, Vladimir - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 2, pp. 173-190

implementation for success in transition. Providing a Serbian perspective on PMS implementation, the study aims to identify and … implementation for success in transition. Obstacles for PMS implementation are connected with a misunderstanding of the need for …

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Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologus 58 (2008) 2, pp. 197-222

Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen;...

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Worker displacement in transition economies and in China

Lehmann, Hartmut - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Continuous enterprise restructuring is needed for the transition and emerging market economies to become and remain …

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New firms entry, labor reallocation, and institutions in transition economies

Bruno, Randolph Luca - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing …

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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: From planned equality to market inequality?

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27

. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of the transition to a market …

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