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This paper explores the role of social vouchers as a tool for social inclusion and local development. It presents a typology of vouchers and their objectives, governing institutional and regulatory frameworks, use by national and local governments, and the social economy (Section1). It analyses...
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This paper provides the first overview of efforts by low- and middle-income countries to extend the coverage of national social protection systems to the forcibly displaced persons they host. It presents a baseline of de jure (legal) and estimated de facto (actual) coverage in 12 countries;...
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Este documento explora a função dos vales sociais como um instrumento de inclusão social e desenvolvimento local. Apresenta uma tipologia dos vales e dos respetivos objetivos, que regem os quadros institucionais e regulamentares, a utilização pelos governos nacionais e locais e a economia...
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En este documento se estudia el papel de los bonos sociales como instrumento para la inclusión social y el desarrollo local. El documento presenta una tipología de los bonos y sus objetivos, de los marcos institucionales y regulatorios vigentes, del uso que hacen de ellos los gobiernos locales...
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Governments at all levels are looking for new and innovative ways to include individuals in vulnerable situations such as youth, migrants, persons with disabilities and families facing multiple challenges, in the labour market and in society more generally. This paper explores integration of...
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Thanks to the large investment of official data producers in OECD countries, measures of subjective well-being have become increasingly robust and meaningful from a policy perspective. In the ten years since the OECD published its Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being, the inclusion of...
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Spanish society values families and family life highly, but the way that families look and live has been changing … traditional nuclear family model. At the same time, the share of mothers who are employed increased by more than 50% over the past … two decades, though it remains below the OECD average. While family law has evolved quite strongly alongside these …
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Since the 1960s the family in the OECD area has undergone significant transformation. In many countries, the extended … family has all but disappeared, and the traditional two-parent family has become much less widespread as divorce rates, re … become more diverse, with some ethnic minorities evolving as parallel family cultures while others intermingle with …
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Fears of the prospect of growing social exclusion have become important concerns in recent years for many countries. Improving the quality of education and the standards attained by students to improve employability is one of the tools being used to prevent exclusion. However, changing social...
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promotes economic prosperity. A failure to assist parents find their preferred work and family balance has implications for … both labour supply and family decisions. This study considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies …, childcare policies, and employment and workplace practices, help determine parental labour market outcomes and family formation …
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