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This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
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youngest son of a family usually lives with his parents. Using data from Kyrgyzstan, we therefore instrument co-residence with … who co-reside in Kyrgyzstan have more children, spend similar time on housekeeping tasks and child care, and invest more …
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Kyrgyzstan Study, a rich longitudinal data set from a transition economy with high levels of international temporary migration …
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(migrant monetary transfers), and alcohol consumption of migrant household members staying behind in Kyrgyzstan, a poor post …
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habits among boys in remittance or transfer receiving households. In the long run, Kyrgyzstan needs human capital development …
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transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally … younger population. -- intergenerational mobility ; educational attainment ; gender ; transition economy ; Kyrgyzstan …
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Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at …
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We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …
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We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
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