Developing economies with high levels of open or hidden unemployment face structural transformation problems. Unlike in mature economies there are no structural aggregate demand problems, and sustained aggregate demand stimulus can lead to a profit squeeze in the modern sector and...

Developing economies with high levels of open or hidden unemployment face structural transformation problems. Unlike in mature economies there are no structural aggregate demand problems, and sustained aggregate demand stimulus can lead to a profit squeeze in the modern sector and...

Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...

Diese Arbeit besteht aus theoretischen und empirischen Beiträgen zur Such- und Matchingliteratur, mit Schwerpunkt auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Das erste Kapitel beschreibt das Such- und Matchingmodell des Arbeitsmarktes sowie sein empirisches Gegenstück, den Flussansatz. Das zweite Kapitel...

A longstanding question in economics is why some countries are so much richer than others. Today, for example, income per capita in the world's richest countries is roughly thirty-five times greater than it is in the world's poorest countries. Recent work argues that the proximate cause of the...