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"This book provides a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental health challenges facing workers today …-pandemic, considering increased working from home, and higher demand for services and support for mental health. The book also discusses … changes in how the fundamental value of work is perceived and how it adds to, or detracts from, workers' health and wellbeing …
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reform and health policy in Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US - nations …In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more … efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a …
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and Phillip B. Levine (2003), 'Maternal Employment and Overweight Children', Journal of Health Economics, 22 (3), May, 477 … Poorer Nations Highly Sensitive to Price? Evidence from Russia and China', Journal of Health Economics, 23 (1), January, 173 …This three-volume set brings together the most important and interesting papers on the economics of health behaviours …
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China is now among the top hosts for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the world. This fact, combined with … recent developments in internationalisation and economic growth in China, ensures a perfect opportunity to identify the … a panel data approach to the analysis of the national and regional determinants of inward FDI in China and its impact on …
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and a VAR model are employed with which to provide both medium- and long-term forecasts of China's economic growth and … in the economic development of China, China analysts, academics, and graduate students …
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, the demand for children, inter-generational relationships, and the economics of inheritance. The family is analysed using …1. Economists and the family -- 2. The family as an economic unit -- 3. Marriage(I) -- 4. Marriage (II) -- 5. Children …
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relationship between socio-economic and educational benefits for children and young people, and human capital formation, further …
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The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is...
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Human Capital Over the Life Cycle synthesises comparative research on the processes of human capital formation in the areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand...
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Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers in the quest for economic growth. Promoting 'human capital' development is a prime objective for economic and education ministries. The seminal articles discussed in this...
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