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Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …
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This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
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This article analyzes whether the large scale provision of non-contributory health services encourages workers to move away from jobs that pay contributions to social security (formal employment). Using a difference-in-differences design, that exploits the variation generated by the municipal...
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In this paper, we study the links between time use, informal labor market, and poverty measures in two countries that strongly differ on their level of development, by means of a multidimensional poverty index, and a bivariate probit model to assess the changes in the joint probability of...
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This paper contributes to the literature examining the role played by donors' interests within International Financial Institutions by showing how the G7 and G10 countries manage to influence World Bank (WB) decisions to satisfy their interests. It demonstrates that the G7 and G10 meets the two...
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This paper measures the effects of food price shocks on both the level of household consumption per capita and the instability of the household consumption per capita growth rate in developing countries. In this vein, the paper explores the role of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of...
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along which societies and economies evolve over time in such a way as to cover sufciently diferent vulnerability patterns … take into account the most relevant factors that defne the vulnerability of human systems to climate change and their …
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simulation. Twelve vulnerability and externality indexes regarding social-economic-environmental dimensions are calculated to … assess vulnerability levels of the sector in seven scenarios. External costs of CO2, NOx, SO2 and PM10 are calculated to …
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of the paper is the use of an ex ante food vulnerability estimate. Vulnerability is defined as the probability of falling … below a given threshold in the future. After constructing a vulnerability variable for each household, we run three separate …-employment), in order to evaluate the impact of vulnerability on participation to the non-agricultural sector. We take into account …
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considered as victimised consumers because of their vulnerability and the lack of their experiences and knowledge in terms of … develop a better understanding of young consumers' vulnerability, it is important to explore the areas and the behaviours …
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