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In this study, we explore the changing employment structure in the Russian economy since 2000. Does it change through a … quality jobs? Or do we observe stagnation and conservation of the job structure? Structural change of this sort can be brought …
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In this study, we explore the changing employment structure in the Russian economy since 2000. Does it change through a … quality jobs? Or do we observe stagnation and conservation of the job structure? Structural change of this sort can be brought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250330
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantlybelow those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrativepanel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors to decompose the driversof this gap. I find that most of the gap is...
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who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the … agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a theoretical attempt to identify the impact on agricultural employment and … social security norm including higher minimum wage not only decreases the overall employment generation in the agricultural …
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The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of `jobless … growth'. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that … include low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness. Under the typical neoclassical tradition …
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This study looked at the relevance of agriculture in the Nigeria society and the need for employment and application of … and application of ICT as a veritable but untapped employment opportunity. The study also revealed that there is need to …
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With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
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tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both developed western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually no...
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