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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...

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Enhancing Labour Utilisation in a Socially Inclusive Society in Australia

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Australia faces the mutually reinforced challenges of boosting labour supply and promoting social inclusion. Labour underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These are also groups at greatest risk of social...

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An Exploration of the Determinants of the Subjective Well-being of Americans During the Great Recession

Sánchez, Aida Caldera; Tassot, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...

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Improving Well-Being in the United States

Sánchez, Aida Caldera; Lenain, Patrick; Flèche, Sarah - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...

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Labour Market Performance, Income Inequality and Poverty in OECD countries

Burniaux, Jean-Marc; Padrini, Flavio; Brandt, Nicola - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could … employment have in general offset the impact of rising wage dispersion. A preliminary econometric analysis for the period 1978 …

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Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010

Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … and that a tertiary qualification improves an individual’s prospects of employment. While the premium for matric and …

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Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa

Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on … average, by 8% and decreasing the pupil/teacher ratio by one learner is associated with a 1% increase in earnings. No …

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The Determinants of Employment and Earnings in Indonesia: A Multinomial Selection Approach

Comola, Margherita; Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in … earnings data are available only for formal-sector workers (salaried employees). This posed problems for the estimation of … earnings equations, because selection into different labour market statuses is likely to be non-random. In order to describe …

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Social Policies in Indonesia

Comola, Margherita; Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Indonesia has made considerable progress over the years in improving the social conditions of its population, especially among disadvantaged groups, not least by raising government spending and strengthening social protection programmes. Nevertheless, in some respects social outcomes remain...

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The Sharing of Macroeconomic Risk: Who Loses (and Gains) from Macroeconomic Shocks

Ahrend, Rudiger; Arnold, Jens; Moeser, Charlotte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

This paper addresses the often neglected question of how macroeconomic risk is shared across and within economies, and identifies reforms that could contribute towards achieving more desirable risksharing outcomes. For risk-sharing across countries, the paper discusses possibilities for...

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