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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Labour market policies"”.
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THE IMPACT OF LABOUR MARKET POLICIES ON INTEGRATION OF RECENT MOVERS IN ITALY
Labour migration in Europe rapidly increased since the 1990s, with European countries witnessing an influx of skilled and semi-skilled workers from outside the continent. In most occasions, this movement and settlement posed integration challenges due to factors such as language barrier, cultural …
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Labour Market Policies and Unemployment in the Presence of Search & Matching Frictions
… to shocks and the role of active and passive labour market policies. Throughout the thesis, unemployment is assumed to evolve as a result of the uncoordinated nature of the labour market along the lines outlined in the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides equilibrium search and matching …
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Models of labour market reform : Poland, Sweden and the case of China
… international competitiveness and an efficient labour market system. It is also generally agreed among economists that governments share responsibilities in terms of promoting growth and stabilising the economy. However, there are significant differences in the roles played by governments, and …
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Employer engagement with government employment and skills initiatives
… to establish why employers engage in Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP). The policy background is government employment policies designed to help at the margins of the labour market where job entry barriers are high. State employment policies in most OECD countries are ALMP, in which …
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… gender wage differentials in Nigeria’s segmented labour market. Using a household-level cross-sectional micro dataset from the Living Standards Measurement Survey 2018/19, gender wage differentials are analysed in two ways. First, through the lens of returns to education by employing a …
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Growth, Productivity, Labour Misallocation, and the Paradox of Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa
… primarily as a severe misallocation of labour, which depressed aggregate productivity and constrained the nation’s long-run development potential. The argument is developed through a tripartite empirical investigation that dissects this paradox at the sectoral, aggregate, and regional …
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Essays on Earnings Instability: The Impact of Search Effectiveness, Labour Market Policy Instruments, and Globalisation
Chapter 1: We study the link between market thickness, labour market flexibility and wage dynamics. We consider an economy with two sectors; a risk-free sector that employs workers only, and a risky sector with matching frictions that employs both workers and employers. Workers are risk-averse, …