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Centre-based versus home-based childcare

Bauchmüller R. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Centrebased childcare is seen as a public investment to facilitate maternalemployment. Recent theoretical research proposes that such investmentspotentially lead to substantial gains in child development and thus to high returnsfor society as a whole. However, the empirical evidence is still...

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Afghan unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: Far away from home and protected?

Siegel M.; Buil C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This study aims to provide insights into the migration situation of Afghan unaccompanied minors UAMs in the Netherlands …, refugee, asylum seeker, migration …

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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled

Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such … importance to the development and reduction of poverty levels. Therefore, any loss of skilled workers through migration was … incentive and feedback effects which skilled migration has on sending countries' development as well as on other stakeholders …

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Discovering and explaining work-family strategies of parents in Luxembourg

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

The presented analysis discovers and explains typical patterns of work-family reconciliation for parents who had a child in the same period 2003 and in the same country Luxembourg, thus facing the same macroeconomic and institutional conditions. Work-family trajectories are reconstructed as...

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Parental leave take up and return to work of mothers in Luxembourg: An application of the model of nested dichotomies

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper analyses the use of parental leave after birth of a child for working mothers. Even though employment rates of women in industrialized countries are rising, women continue to assume the primary responsibility for caring for young children after they are born. Therefore it is...

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Fathers' use of parental leave. What do we know?

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper reviews the the literature on fathers use of parental leave. Parental leave is a work-life reconciliation instrument with great potential to bring about a more equal distribution of paid and unpaid work between men and women. However, policy evaluation studies reveal that simply...

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To return permanently or to return temporarily?: Explaining migrants' intentions

Bilgili Ö.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences...

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Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia

Andersson L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … has previously not received much attention in the migration literature, namely household subjective economic well …

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Attracting and embedding R&D by multinational firms: policy recommendations for EU new member states

Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper asks: what can governments of new member states do to encourage MNEs to invest in R&D? There are two types of MNE R&D. Innovation can be undertaken in order to adapt its existing products and services to local stimuli. This is 'demand-driven R&D'. Innovation can also be in stand-alone...

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A Knowledge Economy Paradigm and its Consequences

Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

During the 1980s and 1990s "Active labour" market reforms opened up labour markets in Europe, making them more flexible without putting in jeopardy the essence of the social security protection model. Countries that went furthest in such "active labour" market reforms such as the UK, the...

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