Search Results - subject:"Labour Exchange"

Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - 2013

We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a...

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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Transfer behaviour in migrant sending communities : conference paper

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - 2013

Private transfers between households in developing countries have been extensively studied and shown to be economically important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to modify the prevalent transfer behaviour in...

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The State of Private Sector Electronic Labour Exchange Services in Canada

Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report has two aims. The first is to provide a descriptive overview of the services offered by private sector electronic labour exchanges (ELEs) in Canada. The second is to assess those services in terms of their likely effects on labour market matching, their accessibility, and the degree...

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Solutions of Bohemian Unemployment in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

Englová, Jana - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2007 (2007) 7, pp. 112-118

Public Labour Exchange in this land. It was the first attempt to address the public labour exchange to a systematic way in … Austria and in Europe too. The number of those who found job using the public labour exchange services tripled during the … decade from 1904 till 1913 (from 51 937 to 153 782 people). The efficiency of the public labour exchange was about 70 %. …

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