This paper investigates the take-up rate or claim-waiting rate of the unemployed under the South African Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) system. The goal is to identify disincentive effects that income replacement rates (IRR) and accumulated credits may have on the claimants behaviour in terms...

The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...

The research aims to analyze the role played by the human capital investment in shaping international migration trends and influencing socio-economic development for the EU New Member States during the last decade. Our analysis is based on developing double-log macro-econometric models that...

Globalisation has introduced a system of production where flexible work contract or sub-contracting and ‘putting-out’ system of production is becoming a general practice. Either as cost reduction strategy or as businesses strategy production is being out sourced and consequently a set of...

Expansion of the secondary sector in India is marked by the inability to achieve prolonged spells of its rapid growth, though it has shown relatively stable employment elasticity. The analysis of the nature of employment growth with output growth in the sub-sectors indicates that while...

Las prendas confeccionadas con algodón peruano han tenido siempre acogida por la alta calidad del insumo. La exportación de confecciones de tejido de punto se ha duplicado en solo cinco años, hasta llegar caso a los mil millones de dólares anuales. En este proceso ha influido el Tratado de...

La comida peruana se está poniendo de moda, de acuerdo con prestigiosas publicaciones como The Economist (que la considera entre las doce grandes cocinas del mundo) y revistas especializadas de turismo y gastronomía. El sector de restaurantes se ha dinamizado mucho en los últimos años. El...

"After almost 20 years of prudent macro policies, Peru seems in better shape than before to withstand the effects of a financial crisis. Progress, however, has left some policy areas unscathed and the labor market is one of them. In this paper we analyze the potential effects of the crisis on...

We study whether labor market institutions affect the volatility and correlations of macroeconomic variables for a sample of 20 OECD countries. Labor market rigidities are characterized with a number of indicators; volatilities and correlations are computed in several ways. Union coverage and...

Basé sur les récents outils d’analyse de l’inadéquation formation-emploi (Zerbo, 2014), ce travail s’est fixé pour objectif d’analyser l’impact des politiques d’offre de travail sur le chômage dû à l’inadéquation de la formation et l’emploi. Il a montré que pour un...