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Georgia : Skills Mismatch and Unemployment, Labor Market Challenges
World Bank - 2013
This paper reviews labor market performance in Georgia, and examines the link between labor market outcomes and poverty. At over 15 percent, the unemployment rate in the country is high by European standards. Georgia faces three main labor market issues: (a) underutilization of labor resources,...
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Understanding poverty in Poland
1995
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Sticky feet : how labor market frictions shape the impact of international trade on jobs and wages
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2014
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Why is unemployment so high in Bulgaria?
Rutkowski, Jan - 2003
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Activating and Increasing Employability of Specific Vulnerable Groups in Bulgaria
World Bank - 2014
The Bulgarian labor market has suffered from the economic crisis, and cyclical unemployment has turned into structural unemployment. The labor market crisis is amplified by demographic change as the young and skilled labor force emigrates, aggravating a skills mismatch. Vulnerable groups are...
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Republic of Congo - Employment and Growth Study : From Jobless to Inclusive Growth
World Bank - 2012
Unemployment, especially youth unemployment, is a serious problem for the Republic of Congo. Despite the economic recovery and political stabilization in the last decade, insufficient employment has been created, leading to high unemployment rates, especially for the young population in urban...
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Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel - 2009
inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is … with H2 and H3. Hungary provides limited support to all three hypotheses. Poland is consistent with H1. The economies in … returns to scale in matching and unemployment appears to be driven by restructuring and low demand. The East German case is …
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