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Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities through Vocational Education

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

. Continuing health and productivity improvements in the general population are leaving people with disabilities behind, unable to … long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities. …

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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use

Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

accessibility, however, provide alternative, non-causal explanations for the observed "staircase" pattern and yield potentially … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy … initiation and, also, a more flexible correlation pattern for the unobservables. We find that proneness, accessibility and …

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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Bauer, Jan Michael; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers'...

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Cash Transfers and Child Labour

de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...

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