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Many private non-profit organizations play an active role assisting the poor. Those organizations often benefit from government subsidies, which makes it important to assess the benefits of their programs. This paper provides a statistical analysis of the characteristics of the clients of a...
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If we take a look at developments on the labour market, we find that the rate of employment stands in a close relationship to the introduction of new technologies and their social and cultural consequences. The immediate effects of new technologies on new forms of work-structures are, in fact,...
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If Europe wants to fulfill it’s Lisbon agenda of catching up with the United States, it must overhaul its pension systems and introduce some form or other of private pension funds, which are a major force in financing technological advance in the capitalist world economy today. Our...
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other vulnerable children (OVC). …
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Most people in rural China have no plans for retirement other than the ingrained Chinese tradition that children care … experienced rapid development in the beginning years but grounded to halt after 1998. Since either children or pension program … Longitudinal Study show that peasants accessing to pension are less likely to rely on their children for support in old age. These …
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Children accompanying their migrant parents for seasonal employment are the most “at risk” group of all in terms of … children. The socio-economic condition of the migrant workers and their children in the kilns, the problems faced by these … migrant children in accessing educational facilities, and the incidence of child labour have been explored. Effectiveness of …
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their children. Using data of Germany and Spain from the Multinational Time Use Study, we find positive correlations, but … gender differences, between parents and children’s housework time, which indicates that the more time parents devote to … housework the more time their children devote to housework. While in Germany both fathers and mothers’ housework is positively …
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This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a … sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It will provide analysis of ethnic minority children’s welfares including … children’s welfares improved overtime, their welfare remain very low compared with Kinh children. …
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receipt of international remittances and internal remittances on education, labor and healthcare utilization of children in … children as well as child labor. However, receiving international remittances helps children increase the number of completed … grades by around 2 percent of the average completed grade for children. Both international and internal remittances are …
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The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … exogenous shocks has not been fully researched yet. Children small at birth and children with anemic mothers are shorter for …
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