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The Chinese labour market has undergone an extensive restructuring in the last four-and-a-half decades, following the start of the economic reforms, and the open door policy for foreign investment in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The nature of employment contracts, labour market...
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, this paper develops a dynamic model of statistical discrimination and examines how initial economic standings of groups and … initial institutionalized discrimination affect subsequent dynamics. …
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stereotypes or discrimination in the labor market, seem to distort investment and sectoral choices, give rise to skill and labor … order to tackle these questions, this paper develops a dynamic model of statistical discrimination and examines how initial … economic standings of groups and initial institutionalized discrimination affect subsequent dynamics and long-run outcomes. …
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The purpose of the paper is to briefly describe the evolution of remote work in tight relationship with specific technological achievements that have occurred over time. Also the concepts, parallels, and distinctions between remote work and conventional work, tracing their historical evolution...
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discrimination or unfavourable labour market conditions which is creating the wage differential. Only an inclusive growth strategy …
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correlated to the number of spells at intermediate states. Moreover, we find that the gender discrimination that affected most of … the countries at the beginning of the 1990s, faded away by the end of the decade, replaced by a positive discrimination in …
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Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
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The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
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Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living. There are two separate streams of migration. The first one is at the upper end of human capital hierarchy, to fill in existing surplus demand in the labour market of destination...
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In July 2020, the EU Parliament voted in favour of Croatia’s application to become the newest member of the eurozone from January 1, 2023. Despite the setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it met all the criteria for adopting the euro, high inflation, and the impact of Russia’s invasion...
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