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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
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The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
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Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...
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Die Stellschraube Arbeitszeit ist der in der Fachdebatte am stärksten unterschätzte Ansatzpunkt, um den absehbaren Konsequenzen der demographischen Herausforderungen begegnen zu können. Würden alle Erwerbstätigen im statistischen Durchschnitt Vollzeit arbeiten, was in etwa der heutigen...
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …
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This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...
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The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional perspective the overall result is the expected levelling effect. When … non-compulsory education, thus negating any social equalisation effects achieved within the compulsory education framework. …
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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