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Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries …. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost … international tourism. From the perspective of an African nation the most important question is whether the benefit of aviation …
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The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
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The paper studies the effect of voluntary work on labour income for Italian employees. The Heckman and Instrumental Variables methods are used in order to control for self-selection bias of participation in labour market and endogeneity of volunteering. The results show that a wage premium of 3...
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Leaving the nest in Southern Europe, and to a lesser extend in other countries, is a decision taken simultaneously by two young adults who form a new household. However, nothing is known about the e¤ect of partnership status on children�s eman- cipation since conventional datasets do not...
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development and for the youth. …
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-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends … on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … questions are also raised about the employability of the youth because of their inadequate education, training, and market ready …
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member in a registered job on both the school attendance and the economic inactivity of youth. …
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This study develops a literacy profile of Ontario's youth (ages 17 to 25) using data from the International Adult … Literacy Survey. The analysis concentrates on Canadian-born youth only. Because of sample limitations, it was not possible to … explore the literacy skills of foreign-born youth. IALS classifies respondents into 5 levels of literacy, across 3 literacy …
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Productive utilization of youth is of critical importance for variety of reasons. Youth being the new entrants in the … productivity. A prolonged spell of youth unemployment results into shortening of average working life besides rendering youth … of youth ensures the accrual of benefits from educational investments often disproportionally made in youth. In addition …
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The age of juvenility i.e. the youth has become emerged with new personality characteristics, which has made them more … powerful than ever before. Similarly, the youth has become more spendthrift in their daily routine to satisfy their self …-concept and social circle they belong to or wish to move in to. From yester years, spending pattern of youth has increased at …
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