Search Results - subject:"Public Work"

Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? : the case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan

Loewe, Markus; Zintl, Tina - In: Canadian journal of development studies 45 (2024) 2, pp. 285-305

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Characteristics of public workers

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2022

developed districts of the country and more than three years in the most disadvantaged areas. The public work programme … workers had been inactive prior to the public work. The ratio of public workers to thepopulation is high in the districts … where the ratio of those working in the primary labour market is low. Thus public work contributed to the reduction of …

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Public work and private violence

Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 9, pp. 1791-1806

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Characteristics of public workers

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2022

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Public work and private violence

Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - 2020

female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of a large public work …

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Public work and private violence

Kjelsrud, Anders; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan - 2020

female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of a large public work …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287331

Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : does political empowerment make a difference?

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 9, pp. 1772-1790

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Political reservation and female labor force participation in rural India

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - 2020

Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, women's labor force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. This paper uses nationwide, individual-level data allow to explore whether random reservation of village leadership for women affected...

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Coelho de Souza, Marcelo Medeiros; de Souza, Pedro H. G. F. - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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Do public work schemes deter or encourage outmigration? Empirical evidence from China

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Qin, Yu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

How does the introduction of rural public work schemes impact individual incentives to migrate? This paper examines … this question in the context of rural public work program (Yigong-daizhen) in China, and unveils empirical evidence that …

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