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The success of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) or the Zone Franche in Madagascar is, with the exception of Mauritius, an isolated and unrecognized case in Africa. The Zone Franche has had a highly significant macroeconomic impact in terms of exports and jobs. Madagascar became the number two...
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In 2007, the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS), which, in a first...
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unemployment and job flexibility has sharply risen. As a consequence, some cohorts appear to be more exposed to career … unemployment, part-time employment and inactivity periods. Our results show how, by compensating for some career accidents, the …
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recent years, and permitted unemployment figures to remain low and skill premia not to sink, despite the shift in skill … structure. We run a retrospective simulation, looking at how unemployment and wages would have reacted had skill biased …
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This paper explores the existence of a bounce-back effect in inventory investment using the European Commission opinion survey on stocks of finished products in manufacturing and retail trade sectors for France, Germany and a European aggregate, from 1985q1 to 2011q4. Our empirical findings...
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