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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom
Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076935
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Student Responses to Merit Retention Rules
Cornwell, Christopher M.; Lee, Kyung Hee; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134618
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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health
Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004
the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413014
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A STUDY ABOUT POVERTY, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEPRIVATION IN INDIA
sivakumarmarimuthu; sarvalingam - EconWPA - 2004
This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413022
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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health
Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004
the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413025
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Review of National Competition Policy Reforms
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
education and training are also needed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118883
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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561544
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On the value of life
Cool, Thomas - EconWPA - 2003
The national budget affects life and death via its allocations in areas such as traffic safety, flood control, public health and the like. When the cost-effectiveness of an intervention is evaluated, common effect measures are the number of lives extended (saved) and the expected lifeyears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076617
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Poverty, Inequality, and Redistribution Under Lexicographic Social Welfare
Briones, Roehlano M. - EconWPA - 2004
Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z. However, the resulting redistribution scheme prioritizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076922
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HIV/AIDS and its impact on convergence in life expectancy, infant and child survival rates
Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2004
This article analyzes the impact of HIV/AIDS on the global convergence in life expectancy as well as infant and child survival rates by comparing two scenarios. One is based on actual estimated and extrapolated values given the existence of the epidemic (‘AIDS- scenario’). The other is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076925