Developed countries are investing a considerable amount of financial resources on active labour market programs such as training schemes, employment subsidies and public sector job creation, aiming to tackle the problem of persisting unemployment. Along with their rising efforts in this field,...

This paper presents a unified parametric approach to estimate the impact of taxes and transfers on the participation decision. We extend existing structural form methodologies by considering the effect of both taxes and transfers. In our framework, participation probabilities are determined by...

Brain drain Impacts on production Endowments Demand and Prices Brain drain Impacts on Real GDP and Welafre Global trade analysis project reduction in real gdp and welfare in Iran Different impacts on production factors' market

There have been many studies show that there are significant differences in wages between China's workers engaged in formal employment and informal employment, but very few studied the career intention of informal workers. Informally workers in such a disadvantageous position, are they voluntary...

In this study, we review the previous pattern of return to education and an attempt is also being made to estimate the recent pattern of return to education in India. The conventional pattern of return to education stated by Psacharopoulos (1993) is tested in Indian context. The purpose of...

- The paper examines efficiency in public input provision in two large jurisdictions with imperfect labour markets. - It analyses how equilibrium capital tax rates and public input provision levels differ between asymmetric jurisdictions that can strategically influence the interest rate on the...

Women in developing countries invest a larger part of their income in their children’s nutrition, health and education than men (Hoddinott et al., 1995; Strauss et al., 2000; Gammage, 2006; Quisumbing et al., 2006). As a result, financial resources acquired by women bring forth a long-time reduction in...