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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy [PDF]
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies, and we give a diagrammatic formulation of the market ...
Bennett, J, Rablen, M
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Segmented Labour Markets in South Africa [PDF]
[Excerpt] The textbook labour market model aggregates all workers, all employers and all sectors of the economy into a single labour market. In this single labour market, workers supply labour, employers demand labour and the rate of pay (termed wage for
Fields, Gary S
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Was it worth it? A comparison of the role of adult education and training in the labour market insertion and progress of men and women in the West of Scotland: results of qualitative research [PDF]
Despite a number of relevant longitudinal studies carried out in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the United States of America, there is a relative paucity of research into the long-term outcomes of adult return to learning.
Clayton, P.
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This paper summarises research on the labour market done over the past two years at the National Institute. It incorporates research into the determinants of employment—including the role of forward-looking behaviour—wage inflation and real wage models, and comments on some policy issues which have arisen in the past five years or so.
Henry, S, Wren-Lewis, S
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Is it Easier to Escape from Low Pay in Urban Areas? Evidence from the UK [PDF]
In this paper we compare periods of low pay employment between urban and rural areas in the UK. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the probability that a period of low pay employment will end allowing for a number of possible outcomes,
Centre for European Labour Market Research +3 more
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Wage subsidies and international trade: when does policy coordination pay? [PDF]
National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature.
Braun, S., Spielmann, Christian
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Product markets and labour markets
The concern of this paper is whether monopoly power in the product market impacts badly on the performance of the labour market. There is strong evidence of the sharing of monopoly rents and of higher wages being associated with market power. It is not clear whether this is simply a union effect or whether it applies in the non-union sector.
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This book consists of the selected papers presented at the International Conference of Political Economy, the third in a series of political economy conferences. As the previous two, the third conference was held in Kocaeli, on September 15-17, 2011 and organized by Kocaeli University in collaboration with the University of Westminster, UK, Slesian ...
Lordoğlu, Kuvvet +2 more
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POLICY AND PRACTICE TARGETING THE LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF NON-EU NATIONALS IN IRELAND. ESRI RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 89 JUNE 2019 [PDF]
Increases in immigration inflows to both the European Union (EU) and Ireland between 2014 and 2016, due in part to the ‘refugee and migrant crisis’, have resulted in an increased focus on integration policies, outcomes and measures, including in the area
Arnold, Samantha +4 more
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