Author: Cheverina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789221096849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Guy Standing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The ILO's Central and Eastern European Team has conducted a series of studies concerning the role of minimum wages in the countries of this rapidly transforming region, in particular looking at ways in which this role should be revised. Based on this research, Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe examines the most crucial issues in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldavia, Poland, Romania and Russia, and compares their systems with those of western industrialized economies.

Author: Guy Standing
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864879
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Since the late 1980s, incomes have fallen sharply in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while unemployment and poverty rates have risen dramatically. In most countries during that period, the statutory minimum wage has been supposed to be an anchor of the social protection system and the wage structure, protecting the low-paid and those dependent on state benefits. Unfortunately for those affected, the level of the minimum wage has been allowed to drop to well below the "poverty level" and has ceased to protect anyone. This book considers the evidence and the implications of this development, and recommends a series of reforms.

Author: Vladimir Gimpelson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742509125
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Traces labour market developments during the transition from a planned to a market economy, focussing on the period 1992-1998. Covers "old" vs. "new" jobs, wages and wage arrears, social benefits, and the politics of labour market adjustment. Icludes some data on labour turnover in Eastern European countries.

Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451974167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This paper analyzes contagion and volatility with imperfect credit markets. The paper interprets contagion effects as an increase in the volatility of shocks impinging on the economy. The implications of this approach are analyzed in a model in which domestic banks borrow at a premium on world capital markets, and domestic producers borrow at a premium from domestic banks. Financial spreads depend on a markup that compensates lenders, in particular, for the expected cost of contract enforcement. Higher volatility increases financial spreads and the producers’ cost of capital.

Author: Russian S.F.S.R.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minimum wage
Languages : en
Pages : 2

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Author: Simon Commander
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821329887
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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World Bank Technical Paper No. 263. Management of water resources is essential for long-term, environmentally sustainable human and economic development. Increasingly, the World Bank and other international organizations are called upon to provide support in the formulation of water resources strategies. This volume serves as a guide for developing countries in creating their strategies by outlining a general process. It also suggests ways for countries to build capacity through the process of designing and implementing such strategies. The volume is divided into two parts. Part I covers the purpose and process of strategy formulation. The process consists of a water resource assessment and then the design and choice of options. Part II reviews such main concepts as institutional and human resources, stakeholder participation, information systems, economics, environment and health, and international issues.

Author: Maarten van Klaveren
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137512423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight on Asia and eight on Europe, focus in particular on the role and effectiveness of minimum wages in the context of national trends in income inequality, economic development, and social security.

Author: Janice Bell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134436262
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-initially slowed economic contraction. But in the longer run slower reformers have generally sustained deeper and more prolonged recessions than faster reforming central European countries. Moreover, the initially low unemployment rates in the former Soviet Union are now rising, and may stabilise at higher post-transition equilibrium rates than in Central Europe.

Author: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789220319482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The 2020-21 edition also reviews minimum wage systems across the world and identifies the conditions under which minimum wages can reduce inequality. The report presents comprehensive data on levels of minimum wages, their effectiveness, and the number and characteristics of workers paid at or below the minimum. The report highlights how adequate minimum wages, statutory or negotiated, can play a key role in a human-centred recovery from the crisis