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Patterns of Rural Non-Farm Diversification and Employment in Romania : A County Level Analysis

Davis, Junior R.; Cristoiu, Adriana - 2005

a better standard of living for rural population through enhanced non-farm employment opportunities and growth. There …

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Non-Farm Employment in Small-Scale Enterprises in Romania : Policy and Development Issues

Davis, Junior R.; Gaburici, Angela - 2005

The aim of this paper is to bring together information that the authors' have collected about micro-enterprises (MSMEs) in Romania and to examine their impact on the development of sustainable rural livelihoods. As these firms operate in fixed locations and are therefore more easily located and...

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The ICOP Manufacturing Database: International Comparisons of Productivity Levels

Ark, Bart van; Timmer, Marcel - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 44-51

International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of...

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Tourism and Economic Development: A Survey

Sinclair, M. Thea - School of Economics, University of Kent - 1997

. Tourism's considerable contributions to foreign currency, income and employment generation are examined. The paper argues that …

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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

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Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction

Schor, Juliet - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

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Crisis Is Over, but Problems Loom Ahead

Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010

pronounced as long as employment fails to grow. Investment will not act as a strong engine of growth either. Given the generally …

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Labour markets in the European Union : the European unemployment problem

Bertola, Giuseppe - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 9-11

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An Interregional Econometric Model for Market Services Employment in 120 EEC Regions

Guisan, M.C.; Frias, I. - Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e … - 2002

We present a complete set of data of employment and value-added at 6 sectors classification, calculated having into …, for the years. We fit and analyze an interregional econometric model for market services employment in 120 EEC regions in … increase of value-added and employment of the market services sector, and thus we think that European Union should try to help …

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Expenditure reform in industralised countries: a case study approach

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...

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