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New trends in the development of volunteering in the European Union : study
Meijs, Lucas; Hendriks, Puck; Dobreva, Afrodita - Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806490
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Republic of Croatia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
the views of the government of the Republic of Croatia or the Executive Board of the IMF. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242730
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The Republic of Croatia; Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation.
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
ended on October 2, with the officials of Croatia on economic developments and policies. Based on information available at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245659
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Republic of Croatia: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Croatia
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Croatia remains stuck in an unusually drawn out recession. In 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243369
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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123849
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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123865
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854451
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reducti
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479