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structural reforms. Three years later Latvia returned to a positive growth path and in 2014 joined the Euro zone. The main … unemployment. Underemployment constitutes another important adjustment channel, while the evidence for informal employment is more …
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In the labour surplus Indian economy, growth must ensure high employment. In order to examine how employment has … evolved over time with output, this study analyses the trends of employment intensity of growth in India at the aggregate and … results indicate that India has been experiencing jobless growth since the 1990s primarily due to the failure of manufacturing …
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Economic growth necessitates extensive churning and restructuring, the bulk of which is about shifts from less to more …
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This paper exploits a unique dataset on corruption and informal sector employment in 476 Brazilian municipalities to estimate whether corruption impacts GDP or income levels once variation in informal economic activity is taken into account. Overall, I find that higher levels of corruption and a...
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Using data on 434 Brazilian municipalities, this paper estimates the effect of both corruption and the size of the informal sector on economic outcomes, while allowing for the possibility of spatial dependence. Overall, this paper finds that the size of the informal sector has a statistically...
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Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized...
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Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti-competitive regulations and effectively enforced competition law against anti-competitive practices. Various sectors have been opened up more widely to competition, and the powers of the Competition Authority have been...
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