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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
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GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
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Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...
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Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125813
This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per capita is low. Technological progress, however,...
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We estimate a semiparametric single-risk discrete-time duration model to assess the effect of vocational training on the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1986 to 1994. To take into...
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unemployment duration. Our results indicate, that training raises the transition rate of unemployed into employment in the short as …
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To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its … economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate … the performance in terms of health for the French system, we thus compared France with four European countries (Germany …
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empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a … sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked with health care system and with the health status are more and more … connected with the economic sphere, a global approach of Health Economics proves necessary. Prior to the development of such an …
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