Wage subsidies to combat unemployment and poverty
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Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation modeling; Developing countries; economic growth; employment absorption capacity; labor costs; macro-micro analysis; Unemployment; wage subsidies;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2010-07-17 (Africa)
- NEP-ALL-2010-07-17 (All new papers)
- NEP-CMP-2010-07-17 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2010-07-17 (Labour Economics)
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