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Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty … education system is a long-term mission and involves raising its pedagogical strength and orientation towards professional needs …. A social welfare system dominated by pensions has not been able to prevent a steep hike in poverty among children and …
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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty …
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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …
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promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … positively affect inclusive education. Second, the poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of the population) should … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
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This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty … unconditional positive incidence on energy poverty while the interactive incidence between entrepreneurship and financial inclusion … on energy poverty is negative. The corresponding financial inclusion policy thresholds that should be exceeded in order …
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substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …
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We study the short- and long-run impact of motherhood on labour market outcomes and explore the individual and firm …
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Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...
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