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This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out the consideration by a demographic model keeping age structure. We suppose that (i) a part of GDP ia used for investment in education, (ii) the production level depends on the...
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The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences between high productivity growth industry sectors and low...
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On 9 July 1997 the Treasurer referred the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry to the Commission for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify ways of improving the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which...
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This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
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Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
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We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … endogeneity of education and we evaluate gender discrimination by studying the entire distribution of the unexplained wage gap as …
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nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender …
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To what extent has government education spending in Pakistan been effective in reducing gender gaps in enrollments? To … gender disparity in access to public subsidy is higher at tertiary level and lowest at primary level, which also reflects …
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effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
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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...
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