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Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
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Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943604
developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the labor market. The authors analyze the … evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. The results find that health measures have a strong …
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, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …
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Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …
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during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …
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smaller full-sample effects on school enrollment, child labor participation, and measures of health service use. One …. Consistent with this, we find a large effect on enrollment (and a nearly off-setting one on child labor) among only children, and …
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This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the State. Those workers believe that the State did not protect their rights, and hence they feel fewer...
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through the labor mobility channel, whether resulting from direct support programs or indirect support via tax incentives. For …
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