What policies should be there for employment in urban areas of developing countries?

Alexi GUGUSHVILI

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Abstract: This paper examines employment policies in urban areas of developing world. We follow traditional economic analysis and present the urban unemployment problem as an inequality of labour supply and demand on labour markets. The effects of demand-side and supply-side policies on informal urban employment are investigated through econometrical models. One or several variables are employed as crude proxies for every policy option. The dependent variable is informal urban employment as a per cent of total urban employment, with the data on eighteen developing countries from different parts of the world.

Keywords: Developing countries; Urban unemployment; Employment policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 J38 C20 E24 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mac and nep-ure
Date: 2006-12-09
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