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Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland
Sena, Vania - In: The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions
A simple theoretical framework is presented, enabling the assessment of the government’s role in industrial and regional labour reallocation that follow from large-scale restructuring in the labour market. The experiences of East Germany and Poland in this regard are then compared and...
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Introduction
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - In: The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New …
The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate on the continuity/fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the...
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Skill Mismatch and Regional Unemployment in Poland
Newell, Andrew - In: The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions
This paper investigates the extent to which the patterns of regional unemployment in Poland since the early 1990s can be explained by regional imbalances in the supply and demand for skilled labour. Indeed, massive changes in the relative demand for skilled labour are found to have taken place...
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653365
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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate … foreign trade) and benefits from urbanization (internal migration and agglomeration effects). Simulations suggest that urban … national growth. Given these trade-offs, we conclude that the urbanization's benefits argue against an agro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Parsing the urban poverty puzzle: A multi-generational panel study in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, 1968 - 2008
Perlman, Janice E. - 2010
This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to 'opening' to democracy; major economic transformations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280193
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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate … foreign trade) and benefits from urbanization (internal migration and agglomeration effects). Simulations suggest that urban … national growth. Given these trade-offs, we conclude that the urbanization's benefits argue against an "agro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518151
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960252
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Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2019
We assess the role of internal migration and urbanisation in China on the nominal earnings of three groups of workers (rural migrants, low-skilled natives, and high-skilled natives). We estimate the impact of many city and city-industry characteristics that shape agglomeration economies, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894358