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Do minimum wages stimulate productivity and growth? : minimum wage increases fail to stimulate growth and can have a negative impact on vulnerable workers during recessions
Sabia, Joseph J. - 2015
Proponents of minimum wage increases have argued that such hikes can serve as an engine of economic growth and assist low-skilled individuals during downturns in the business cycle. However, a review of the literature provides little empirical support for these claims. Minimum wage increases...
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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015
's paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition …
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Making work pay in Nicaragua : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Gutiérrez, Catalina - 2008
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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008
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Interrogating inclusive growth : poverty and inequality in India
Kannan, Kappadath Parameswara - 2014
India's common people : who are they, how many are they and how do they live? -- More on India's common people : a regional profile -- Growth sans Employment : a quarter century of jobless growth in India's organised manufacturing -- Dualism, informality and social inequality -- The long road to...
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Employment multipliers from agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Mellor, John Williams - In: The Pakistan development review : PDR 40 (2001) 4: Papers and proceedings, pp. 371-400
Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. (...) We have long known that agricultural growth is closely related to … poverty reduction. Recent studies (...) provide massive statistical evidence of this relationship. Rural growth and … agricultural growth have a major effect on poverty reduction; urban growth and manufacturing growth do not. (...) The poor in rural …
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Progrès technique, emploi et exclusion du marché du travail
Cahuc, Pierre; Granier, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - In: Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 50 (1999) 3, pp. 405-415
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Social protection and social inclusion 2008 : EU indicators ; Commission staff working document
2009 - Ms. compl. in Oct. 2008
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Economic and trade policies in the Arab world : employment, poverty reduction and integration
Elkhafif, Mahmoud A. T. (contributor) - 2012 - 1. ed.
trade and poverty : the case of Egypt -- Employment and poverty effects of trade and investment policies in Jordan …, 1970-2007 -- Quantitative study : Arab trade : data, models and issues -- Conclusion : development strategy for poverty …
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Understanding the relationship between economic growth, employment, income inequality and povertry in Pakistan
Zaman, Khalid (contributor); Shah, Iqtidar Ali (contributor) - In: Journal of social and economic development 14 (2012) 1, pp. 1-24
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