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The Growth Trap, Ecological Devastation, and the Promise of Guaranteed Employment
Wisman, Jon D. - 2012
of work. The immorality of consigning a portion of the workforce to the degradation of unemployment would be eliminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616477
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Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?
Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616990
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Political rivalry effects on human capital accumulation and inequality: a New Political Economy approach
Sochirca, Elena; Afonso, Oscar; Silva, Sandra - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2012
political institutions and political rivalry on human capital accumulation and income inequality. Relating to the increasing … inequality. As regards the role of political institutions, our analysis suggests that the elasticities of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634117
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Effects of political rivalry on public educational investments and income inequality: evidence from empirical data
Sochirca, Elena; Afonso, Óscar; Silva, Sandra - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
In this paper we intend to empirically examine how different political institutions may define the long-term economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895375
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Essays on Growth and Environment
Cialani, Catia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
growth, net migration, and changes in unemployment rates at the municipal level in Sweden. The aim is to explore in depth the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019144
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Factor Market Linkages in a Global Economy
Oslington, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
equalization allows the divergent wage experience as well as unemployment experience of Europe and America to be explained. Europe … reduces European unemployment (which increased under factor price equalization). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605208
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Ending the Crisis With Guaranteed Employment and Retraining
Wisman, Jon D.; Pacitti, Aaron - 2013
Since 2008, the U.S. economy has been mired in the second worst economic crisis in its history. Conceivably, massive government spending could bring the economy out of this slump as massive war spending ultimately ended the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, a far superior strategy exists:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925733
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Unemployment and External and Internal Labor Market Flexibility: A Comparative View of Europe, Japan, and the United States
Kucera, David - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 1998
flexibility, labor market institutions, the trade-off between unemployment and inequality (the so-called unified theory), social … institutions and unemployment, in which is is assumed that Japan has comparatively high wage flexibility. …This paper examines the relationship between unemployment and labor market flexibility. The latter is considered in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450692
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868116
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Le marché du travail en Haïti après le séisme : quelle place pour les jeunes ?
Roubaud, François; Torelli, Constance; Zanuso, Claire - DIAL - 2014
(english) In January 2010, Haiti has been hit by the worst earthquake in its dramatic history. It was followed by an unprecedented international mobilization. Since then, a succession of natural disasters has struck the country (floods, epidemics, etc.). At the commemoration of the fourth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743111