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Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …
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This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …
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In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …
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paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that promote self-employment, in Argentina. We …
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Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...
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Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic … to 20 per cent by the omission of unobserved family background factors (i.e. family fixed effects). Surprisingly, after …
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The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …
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women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. We suggest an alternative interpretation which is that women who chose … in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …
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Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
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