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As part of the most recent phase of liberalisation in the markets for public and social service provision, non-profit organisations have increasingly been called upon to ‘be strategic’ in a ‘for-profit’ sense. Unlike corporations, however, non-profits face significant barriers to...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...
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The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security … policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is … establishes theoretical models for different aspects of labor force mobility, discusses the availability of data on Russia and …
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control, mobility of people, and consumption expenditures in the Republic of Korea. We employ structural and threshold vector … autoregressive (VAR) models using big-data-driven mobility data, credit card expenditure, and a social distancing index. We find that …, its marginal effect on mobility is estimated to be smaller than when social distancing stringency is low. Increased …
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When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …
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In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …
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The goal of the paper is to provide viewpoints to labour mobility development in the Western Balkans and in Macedonia … Western Balkans opens up new dimensions for labour mobility in the long run in two aspects. One is the possibility of … revitalization of the earlier notion of “intra mobility” of Yugoslavia, especially since there are small language barriers among the …
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. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to … identify some of the key determinants of international student mobility among higher education policies. For this purpose we …
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control, mobility of people, and consumption expenditures in the Republic of Korea. We employ structural and threshold vector … autoregressive (VAR) models using big-data-driven mobility data, credit card expenditure, and a social distancing index. We find that …, its marginal effect on mobility is estimated to be smaller than when social distancing stringency is low. Increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198896