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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies …
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Die Autoren untersuchen anhand unterschiedlicher Modelle die steuerlichen Maßnahmen, um den Bedürfnissen kinderreicher Familien gerecht zu werden. Unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen könnte sich die Steuerbelastung an der Familiengröße orientieren und kindbedingte Erfordernisse...
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