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as employment, unemployment and wages can be connected not with economic situation, but with the equalization processes … in the EU. Under these circumstances it could be inefficient to fight with the increase of wages in Latvia, also to … decrease wages, because in the long-term it can cause more severe problems in the development of national economy. …
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The Swedish model is particularly attractive because it has resisted well to the major shocks of 1970s and 1990s. In particular, while the crisis of 1993 was particularly strong causing a major recession and a dramatic increase in unemployment, the evolutions that followed were very encouraging....
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The current paper aims to research the functioning mechanism of labour market, departing from the idea that labour market represents a constitutive part of the market system, the market system stands as a subsystem of economy and the economy itself a subsystem of the society. First of all, the...
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This report examines the employment structure and structural change (1986-1999) of Vietnam, discusses Vietnam's labour market regulations and examines how Vietnam's labour markets could become more efficient. Vietnam’s labour policies remain focused on control of state enterprises: who they...
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's foreign trade, the privatization method and high wages should be mentioned above all. The macroeconomic reasons for the …
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trade-off between wages and access to social services provided by the firm. The most productive workers leave their initial …
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(Mazowieckie, Pomorskie) are characterized by high relative GDP per capita, high labour productivity and high relative wages. In … by large shares of the employed in agriculture, low labour productivity and wages and low GDP per capita. The size of …
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"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...
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The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of labor productivity from a time-series perspective. This framework is then used to assess the...
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In exploring the impact of tax policy on labor-market performance, the paper first investigates how tax reform impacts labor supply and equilibrium unemployment in representative agent models.The impact of tax policy on labor market performance depends importantly on various other labor-market...
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