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  1. The footwear industry and plastic recycling
    a case of circular economy and green jobs in Yucatán, México
    Author: Hernández-Cuevas, Francisco Iván; Pérez-Herrera, Norma Elena; Becerril-García, Javier; Perera-Rios, Javier Humberto; Sosa, Allan
    Published: 11/2021
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    Series: ICDD Working Papers ; no. 36 (Nov. 2021)
    Subjects: circular economy; environmental health; decent work; toxicity; green jobs
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  2. Modos de financiar una recuperación de la crisis de la COVID-19 centrada en las personas y una acción decisiva contra el cambio climático en todo el mundo
    el momento de la verdad de la cooperación internacional en el siglo XXI
    Author: Samans, Richard
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    International cooperation and financing for development in particular face a moment of truth. A lack of national capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change anywhere is a threat to the security and well-being of people everywhere. The... more

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    International cooperation and financing for development in particular face a moment of truth. A lack of national capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change anywhere is a threat to the security and well-being of people everywhere. The most feasible way to mobilize the large additional sums required to advance a fully inclusive, human-centred recovery from the pandemic and a rapid acceleration of climate action on a worldwide basis - including in resource-constrained low-and lower-middle-income countries - is for the international community to apply the public capital it has already invested in the International Monetary Fund and multilateral development banksmore efficiently and expansively. This could be achieved by applying the balance sheets and tools of these institutions just as imaginatively for such common purposes as those of central banks and treasuries in advanced countries have been applied for domestic purposes during the pandemic. The paper proposes a set of initiatives to this end in order to fully fund the WHO ACT-A/COVAX Initiative, adequately resource debt relief and restructuring, social protection floors and job-rich sustainable infrastructure and industry in these countries, and finance a global effort to avoid a lock-in of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power generation, which represents the single largest and most time sensitive aspect of the climate action required to achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement. This fuller utilization of the existing international financial architecture to implement multilaterally agreed objectives would generate an average increase in annual external flows of about 4% of GDP to 82 poorer developing countries during the next seven years, exceeding the Marshall Plan's support of Europe's efforts to "build back better" from World War II, while using such additional international assistance in a similar manner to generate complementary increases in domestic resource mobilization.

     
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    Series: Documento de trabajo de la OIT / Organización Internacional del Trabajo ; 40 (Octubre 2021)
    Subjects: decent work; future of work; social protection; development cooperation; economic recovery; international monetary system; international cooperation; multilateral system; COVID-19; climate change
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  3. Liberalización del comercio, resultados del mercado laboral y Trabajo Decente en México
    el caso de las industrias automotriz y textil
    Author: Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos; Gómez Tovar, Rosa; Sánchez Gómez, Joaquín; Gómez Rodríguez, Lizzeth
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    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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    Series: Documento de trabajo de la OIT / Organización Internacional del Trabajo ; 36 (12/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; trade liberalization; value chains
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  4. Internships, employability and the search for decent work experience
    Contributor: Stewart, Andrew (HerausgeberIn); Owens, Rosemary Cullen (HerausgeberIn); O'Higgins, Shane Niall (HerausgeberIn); Hewitt, Anne (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Edgar Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK ; International Labour Office, Northampton, MA, USA

    "This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships and the policy issues they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work." more

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    "This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships and the policy issues they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work."

     
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  5. Digital work in Eastern Europe
    overview of trends, outcomes and policy responses
    Author: Aleksynska, Marijya
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    This paper documents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe. It shows that the development of two types of digital work – online work through online labour platforms and offline work mediated by mobile apps – have a... more

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    This paper documents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe. It shows that the development of two types of digital work – online work through online labour platforms and offline work mediated by mobile apps – have a different history, root causes and dynamics. While both are enabled by digital technologies, each attracts a different worker profile and results in different outcomes for workers. The paper also reviews policy responses to digital work in three areas: bringing digital work under the scope of existing regulations; ensuring fair competition with workers in traditional forms of employment; and improving formalization and better tax compliance of digital workers. It concludes by discussing how low scope for organizing digital workers, poor law enforcement and proliferation of new modes of digital work remain key obstacles for effective regulation.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 32 (May/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; future of work; non-standard forms of employment; digital labour; conditions of employment; social dialogue; labour standards; digital work; online labour markets; gig economy; labour platforms; work via apps
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  6. Turning up the heat
    exploring potential links between climate change and gender-based violence and harassment in the garment sector
    Author: Anderson Hoffner, Laurel; Simpson, Joni; Martinez-Fernandez, M. Cristina; Patumtaewapibal, Aruch
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Violence and harassment are widespread issues within the garment sector in Asia, and with the effects of climate change increasing, it is possible that these behaviours could escalate. Using Bangladesh as a case study, this working paper will... more

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    Violence and harassment are widespread issues within the garment sector in Asia, and with the effects of climate change increasing, it is possible that these behaviours could escalate. Using Bangladesh as a case study, this working paper will highlight the intersection between climate change and gender-based violence and harassment by exploring how climate change, measured by increasing heat stress and extreme weather events, could lead to heightened violence being faced by the (mostly female) workers in the sector as a result of its impact on productivity. It is important to note that gender-based violence in the world of work exists independently of climate change; however, evidence finds that violence in the garment sector can be linked to workplace intensity, which is likely to be further stressed by the impacts of climate change, should current trends continue. In addition, gender-based violence tends to increase with higher levels of socio-economic vulnerability, which climate change will also increase. Accordingly, while addressing harmful social norms is key to improving gender equality and reducing gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work, this working paper will explore how climate change will further exacerbate the factors associated with the prevalence of such behaviours within the current context and how, if left unaddressed, this combination of factors could ultimately contribute towards heightened levels of violence and harassment within the garment sector.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 31 (May/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; clothing and textile industries; partnerships; gender; environment; climate change
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  7. Labour conditions in regional versus global value chains
    insights from apparel firms in Lesotho and Eswatini
    Author: Pasquali, Giovanni
    Published: September 2021
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    We explore how decent work varies across Southern Africa apparel firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) and regional value chains (RVCs), respectively. We draw on crosssection survey data from 135 workers in 31 firms across Eswatini and... more

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    We explore how decent work varies across Southern Africa apparel firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) and regional value chains (RVCs), respectively. We draw on crosssection survey data from 135 workers in 31 firms across Eswatini and Lesotho, two large apparel exporters serving both global and regional markets. We use a linear probability model to estimate how measurable standards and enabling rights vary depending on whether supplier firms participate in GVCs or RVCs. Our results show that whilst private audits are significantly more likely to take place among GVCs suppliers, these only reflect higher measurable standards in terms of paid sick leave, maternity leave, and production bonuses. However, no major difference emerges, with workers' conditions being fairly poor across GVCs and RVCs. Importantly, other factors such as ownership, country legislation, firm size, and gender are critical in explaining variations in decent work.

     
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2021, 145
    Subjects: regional value chains; global value chains; decent work; apparel; Lesotho; Eswatini; firms
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  8. Eine Europäische Arbeitslebensversicherung?
    auf den Spuren des Revolutionärs Immanuel Kant
    Author: Schmid, Günther
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Berlin

    Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf europäischer Ebene hat durch die Krisen der letzten Jahre wiederholt neue Impulse erhalten. Mit den Initiativen für eine europäische Arbeitslosenrückversicherung, einen europäischen Mindestlohn, eine europäische... more

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    Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf europäischer Ebene hat durch die Krisen der letzten Jahre wiederholt neue Impulse erhalten. Mit den Initiativen für eine europäische Arbeitslosenrückversicherung, einen europäischen Mindestlohn, eine europäische Jugendgarantie und - vor kurzem - Europäische Sozialanleihen, ist die EU mittlerweile ein arbeitsmarktpolitischer Akteur, der die nationalen Aktivitäten ergänzt oder unterstützt. Die COVID-19-Krise könnte ein Gelegenheitsfenster sein, den Europäischen Sozialfonds um bestimmte Elemente einer Europäischen Arbeitslebensversicherung weiter zu entwickeln. Das Ziel sollte nicht nur darin bestehen, in europäischer Solidarität auf zyklische oder pandemische Krisen des Arbeitsmarkts zu reagieren, sondern auch die nationalen Kapazitäten zu stärken, um Einkommensrisiken im gesamten Erwerbsverlauf abzusichern. Die Innovation dieses Essay besteht darin, die Grundzüge einer Arbeitslebensversicherung auf die revolutionäre Trias "Freiheit, Gleichheit, Selbständigkeit" von Immanuel Kant zurückzuführen. Kants Konzept der "bürgerlichen Selbständigkeit" - anstelle der "Solidarität" - erweist sich als überaus fruchtbar, um ein institutionell fundiertes Grundrecht auf würdige Arbeit zu begründen. The labour market policy at the European level has been repeatedly given new impetus by the crises of recent years. With its initiatives for a European unemployment re-insurance scheme, a European minimum wage, a European Youth Guarantee, and - most recently - European Social Bonds, the EU has become an actor in the field of labour market policy that complements or supports national activities. The COVID-19 crisis could be a window of opportunity to further develop the European Social Fund through certain elements of work-life-insurance. The aim should not only be to respond in European solidarity to cyclical or pandemic labour market crises, but also to enhance the national capacities for social protection against income risks during the whole work-life course. The innovation of this essay is to argue for a work-lifeinsurance on the basis of Kant's triad "freedom, equality, self-reliance". Kant's concept of "civic self-reliance" - instead of "solidarity" - turns out to be quite fruitful to argue for a right to decent work based on sound legal institutions.

     
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    Series: Discussion Paper / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Emeriti ; EME 2021, 002 (September 2021)
    Subjects: Europa; Sozialunion; Arbeitsmarkt; würdige Arbeit; Arbeitsmarktpolitik,Löhne/Mindestlohn; Arbeitslosenversicherung; Gerechtigkeit; Arbeitsrecht; Arbeitsverhältnis; Europe; EU; Social Union; labour market; decent work; labour market policy; wages/minimumwages; unemployment insurance; justice; labour law; labour relationship
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  9. Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar
    application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
    Author: Jensen, Henning Tarp; Keogh-Brown, Marcus; Tarp, Finn
    Published: December 2021
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    Myanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour. But child exploitation continues, including use of forced labour by the military and... more

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    Myanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour. But child exploitation continues, including use of forced labour by the military and children performing hazardous work. Moreover, Myanmar faces a rapidly closing window of opportunity within which to train its workforce to meet the future challenges of declining population growth and an ageing society. To address the twin challenges of child exploitation and future labour market needs, we study a comprehensive stylized education reform package for child workers aged 10-14. We employ a newly developed dynamically recursive 2021-40 computable general equilibrium model for Myanmar to analyse the economic and household income distribution impacts of a combined child work elimination and education programme allowing current child workers to achieve the same distribution of educational attainment as wider society over a 15-year transition period. While child work elimination would be costly for disadvantaged rural households, the combined programme may leave them better off, though only after a long transition period. At the societal level, the opportunity costs of child work elimination outweigh the long-term economic benefits of education over our 20-year horizon. In spite of the lack of societal economic benefits, our proposed reforms do seem to be advantageous, dealing with the unethical and appalling continuation of child labour practices while improving income distribution in favour of disadvantaged rural households. This would allow Myanmar to move towards the goal of SDG8, 'Decent Work and (Inclusive) Economic Growth', while training current generations to support an ageing Myanmarese society.

     
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    Subjects: Myanmar; child labour; education reform; decent work; household income distribution
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  10. Supporting decent work and the transition towards formalization through technology-enhanced labour inspection
    Author: Gallo, Michael; Thinyane, Hannah
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    The development and expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has had far-reaching consequences for governance and the world of work, including how labour administrations and inspectorates manage and deliver services. Labour... more

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    The development and expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has had far-reaching consequences for governance and the world of work, including how labour administrations and inspectorates manage and deliver services. Labour inspection is an essential part of labour administration and ensures the enforcement of worker's rights and compliance with relevant legal obligations. As such, labour inspection is one of the many different pathways available for reducing informality through inspectorates' mandated information sharing and sanctioning activities. An increasing number of governments around the world are interested in exploring, promoting and unlocking the full potential of new technologies to facilitate the transition from the informal to the formal economy. Research and evidence on effective strategies, programs, and practical applications of ICTs in this area to date is limited and policymakers stand to benefit from a greater understanding of what works in addressing informality through technology. In this working paper, we broadly explore the relationship and intersection between labour inspection, technology, and formalization and provide a detailed case study of Apprise, an innovative mobile solution that was developed to assist inspectors and other frontline responders in their preliminary screening of workers for indicators of labour violations and exploitation. Although additional impact evaluation studies are necessary, the study concludes that technology-enhanced labour inspection shows promise as a central component of integrated strategies targeting reductions in informality.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 41 (October/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; migrant workers; informal economy; labour inspection; COVID-19; information and communication technologies
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  11. Financing human-centred COVID-19 recovery and decisive climate action worldwide
    international cooperation's twenty-first century moment of truth
    Author: Samans, Richard
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    This Working Paper provides a concrete illustration of how the existing international financial architecture could be activated more fully to mobilize the large sums required to respond decisively to the “great divergence” in COVID-19 crisis recovery... more

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    This Working Paper provides a concrete illustration of how the existing international financial architecture could be activated more fully to mobilize the large sums required to respond decisively to the “great divergence” in COVID-19 crisis recovery between advanced and developing countries as well as to the climate crisis. International cooperation and financing for development in particular face a moment of truth. A lack of national capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change anywhere is a threat to the security and well-being of people everywhere. The most feasible way to mobilize the large additional sums required to advance a fully inclusive, human-centred recovery from the pandemic and a rapid acceleration of climate action on a worldwide basis - including in resource-constrained low-and lower-middle-income countries - is for the international community to apply the public capital it has already invested in the International Monetary Fund and multilateral development banksmore efficiently and expansively. This could be achieved by applying the balance sheets and tools of these institutions just as imaginatively for such common purposes as those of central banks and treasuries in advanced countries have been applied for domestic purposes during the pandemic. The paper proposes a set of initiatives to this end in order to fully fund the WHO ACT-A/COVAX Initiative, adequately resource debt relief and restructuring, social protection floors and job-rich sustainable infrastructure and industry in these countries, and finance a global effort to avoid a lock-in of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power generation, which represents the single largest and most time sensitive aspect of the climate action required to achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement. This fuller utilization of the existing international financial architecture to implement multilaterally agreed objectives would generate an average increase in annual external flows of about 4% of GDP to 82 poorer developing countries during the next seven years, exceeding the Marshall Plan's support of Europe's efforts to "build back better" from World War II, while using such additional international assistance in a similar manner to generate complementary increases in domestic resource mobilization.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 40 (October/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; future of work; social protection; development cooperation; economic recovery; international monetary system; international cooperation; multilateral system; COVID-19; climate change
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  12. Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico
    the case of the automotive and textile industries
    Author: Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos; Gómez Tovar, Rosa; Sánchez Gómez, Joaquín; Gómez Rodríguez, Lizzeth
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    The study examines the effects of trade liberalization on employment and the labour market in Mexico's manufacturing industry. The analysis places special emphasis on assessing the extent to which the industry's distinct trade performance is... more

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    The study examines the effects of trade liberalization on employment and the labour market in Mexico's manufacturing industry. The analysis places special emphasis on assessing the extent to which the industry's distinct trade performance is accompanied by an improvement in labour conditions with the objective of ensuring decent work. For this purpose, the study applies the framework of decent work indicators developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in combination with input-output analysis, to explore selected links between international trade and certain indicators of decent work in two industries of Mexico's manufacturing sector: automotive and textile. We chose these two industries because of the key differences in their organizational structures, their roles in global value chains (GVC) and their dynamism in recent decades. With the policy shift towards trade liberalization in recent decades, the automotive industry has come to be regarded as the jewel of Mexico's export market. The textile industry, in contrast, suffered a severe shock as trade liberalization brought about increased competition in Mexico's domestic market, despite the industry increasing its participation in GVCs. A key contribution of the study was to construct a set of relevant time series indicators of decent work for these two industrial activities in Mexico, based on ILO guidelines and official data. Taking into account this set of indicators, as well as Mexico's labour market regulatory reforms and their links to trade agreements, including the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States and Canada (USMCA), the study finds important differences in these two industries' advance towards decent work, which can be partly explained by their distinct performances in international trade. Based on these results, the study offers some policy recommendations to help achieve a more robust pace of progress towards decent work.

     
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    Series: ILO working paper / International Labour Organization ; 36 (June/2021)
    Subjects: decent work; trade liberalization; value chains
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  13. Financer une reprise centrée sur l'humain pour sortir de la crise du COVID-19 et une action décisive pour le climat à l'échelle mondiale
    l'heure de vérité pour la coopération internationale au XXIe siècle
    Author: Samans, Richard
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Organisation internationale du Travail, Genève, Suisse

    International cooperation and financing for development in particular face a moment of truth. A lack of national capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change anywhere is a threat to the security and well-being of people everywhere. The... more

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    International cooperation and financing for development in particular face a moment of truth. A lack of national capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change anywhere is a threat to the security and well-being of people everywhere. The most feasible way to mobilize the large additional sums required to advance a fully inclusive, human-centred recovery from the pandemic and a rapid acceleration of climate action on a worldwide basis - including in resource-constrained low-and lower-middle-income countries - is for the international community to apply the public capital it has already invested in the International Monetary Fund and multilateral development banksmore efficiently and expansively. This could be achieved by applying the balance sheets and tools of these institutions just as imaginatively for such common purposes as those of central banks and treasuries in advanced countries have been applied for domestic purposes during the pandemic. The paper proposes a set of initiatives to this end in order to fully fund the WHO ACT-A/COVAX Initiative, adequately resource debt relief and restructuring, social protection floors and job-rich sustainable infrastructure and industry in these countries, and finance a global effort to avoid a lock-in of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power generation, which represents the single largest and most time sensitive aspect of the climate action required to achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement. This fuller utilization of the existing international financial architecture to implement multilaterally agreed objectives would generate an average increase in annual external flows of about 4% of GDP to 82 poorer developing countries during the next seven years, exceeding the Marshall Plan's support of Europe's efforts to "build back better" from World War II, while using such additional international assistance in a similar manner to generate complementary increases in domestic resource mobilization.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789220356944; 9789220356951; 9789220356968
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/278289
    Series: Document de travail de l'OIT / Organisation internationale du Travail ; 40 (Octobre 2021)
    Subjects: decent work; future of work; social protection; development cooperation; economic recovery; international monetary system; international cooperation; multilateral system; COVID-19; climate change
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 29 Seiten), Illustrationen
  14. The impact of patient capital on job quality, investments and firm performance
    cross-country evidence on long-term finance
    Author: Sommer, Christoph
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn

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