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NEETS’ CHALLENGE TO JAPAN: CAUSES ANDREMEDIES
Rahman, Khondaker Mizanur - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tōkyō> - 2006
information, this paper examines theunderlying causes of the NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) problemin Japan … issue hasposed a severe challenge to the nation’s labor market, and calls for an immediatesolution. The paper offers some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418743
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Pensions: Challenges and Choices: What next?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The analysis in the Report of the Pensions Commission (UK Pensions Commission2004, henceforth referred to as the Report), is sound, the data a wonderful treasure trove, thepresentation particularly clear, and the diagnosis correct. This comment takes the Report’sanalysis as given, and sets out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871047
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Paying for higher education: What policies, in what order?
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871048
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Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766030
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Journal of education and work
Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; … - Vol. 10, no. 1 (1997)-
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Voices of the Poor in Colombia : Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities
Arboleda, Jairo A.; Petesch, Patti L.; Blackburn, James - 2013
of livelihood, insecurity and education as tightly connected, and progress will have to be made simultaneously on all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563861
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507980
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How to Measure the Tax Burden on Labour at the Macro-Level?
de Haan, Jakob; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjorn - 2021
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319904
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Work meaning and labor supply
Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2020 - Version: May 11, 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244096
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Numeracy and unemployment duration
Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019
unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced … data linked with administrative data, we show that numeracy skills are strongly related to unemployment duration, while at … longer unemployment duration of workers below median age (33) in our sample, even after including a rich set of controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060752