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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Wage subsidies"”.
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Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies
… their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, with careful consideration of the advantages and limitations of each. A rich set of model …
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Are small businesses an appropriate vehicle through which to tackle unemployment?
… employment initiative, introduced in 1998, used wage subsidies to encourage the integration of the long term unemployed to the labour market. This might have naturally complemented the recruitment needs of small business, however, such businesses generally seek skills lacking in the long term …
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Empirical essays on job search behavior, active labor market policies, and propensity score balancing methods
… are also expected to have a higher reservation wage than unemployed with a small network. The model-theoretic predictions are tested and confirmed empirically. It is found that the search behavior of unemployed is significantly affected by the presence of social contacts, with larger networks …
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Causal Effects of European Active Labor Market Policy : Foundations and Empirics
… training, (ii) incentive schemes, such as wage subsidies, and (iii) direct job creation in the public sector. The question whether these policy instruments are effective clearly implies the necessity to evaluate any such program, in order to identify a causal effect of the labor market …
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The Role of The Casual Poor in a Third World Urban Economy: A Case Study of Calcutta, India (Informal Sector)
… casual poor are a source of cheap labor, cheap wage goods, particularly clothing and house hold articles, and services, they are not alone in subsidizing the living costs of urban workers. The analysis indicates the increasing importance of the role of the state government in the provision of …
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An investigation of employment outcomes in South African manufacturing
… the common notion that South African real wages are too high to be competitive in labour-intensive production. The findings indicate that poor labour productivity is an equally important contributor to uncompetitive unit labour costs relative to competitor countries. As a means of …
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed - New evaluation approaches and insights
… ALMP instruments like training measures, wage subsidies, or job creation schemes, which are aimed at reintegrating unemployed individuals into dependent employment, start-up incentives are a fundamentally different approach to ALMP, in that they intend to encourage and help unemployed …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… they study the labor market effects of a wage subsidy in a highly informal economy, the impact of a tax-breaks program on small formal firms' entrance decision and the probability of survival, and the impact of exposure to neighborhood crime on school absenteeism, respectively.</p> <p>The …