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Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2021

employment by 14.1% and labor income by 26.8%. We also find some evidence of adverse impacts of refugees' mental illness on their …

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Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?

Bedaso, Fenet Jima; Jirjahn, Uwe; Goerke, Laszlo - 2022

We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...

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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2019

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...

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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...

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Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2019

’s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …

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Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael M.; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2019

Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys over the past two decades spanning this transition. We find rising income levels and decreasing … staying in the formal sector is statistically significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income … growth. However, a similar transition from the private sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income …

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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2022

-from several countries, spanning different income levels and geographical regions-perform well under various deviations from model …

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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; … - 2023

suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

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Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17, addressing the lack of actual panel...

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Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the Past Quarter of Century

Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021

transient rather than a chronic nature. The bottom 20 percent of the income distribution averages an annual growth rate of 5 … percent, which compares favorably with that of 3.3 percent for the whole population. Income growth, particularly the shares …

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