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, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with … massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations … comparison group design, this study is, to our knowledge, the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that …
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, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with … massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations … comparison group design, this study is, to our knowledge, the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005438452
A factual and descriptive analysis of the employment situation in Bulgaria showed that the transition to a market economy has led to a substantial reduction of employment. The economic restructuring has begun in 1990 has proved very difficult, and the privatization of the large industrial...
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, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with … massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations … comparison group design, this study is, to our knowledge, the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003081706
. However, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms …, associated massive lay-offs, and accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact … group design. To our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that retraining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063177
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of a minimum wage increase on employment, wages, and expenditures of workers in the formal sector who have wages below the minimum level in Vietnam. Using the difference-in-differences with propensity score matching and Vietnam Household...
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Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom. Using unusually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822034
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work.  One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom.  Using unusually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168462
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...
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