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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted transition from school to work and thus into adulthood. This paper investigates how labor market insertion has been evolving over time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions...
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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China
Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119601
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Influence of socio-demographic characteristics on different dimensions of household food insecurity in Montevideo, Uruguay
Rossi, Máximo; Ferre, Zuleika; Curutchet, María Rosa; … - 2017
identified factors were associated with different severity levels of food insecurity. Likelihood of experiencing different levels … Montevideo, we evaluate first the factorial structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household Food Security Scale (ELCSA …-demographic characteristics on each of the identified dimensions of the food insecurity. The percentage of affirmative responses to the items of …
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
decreases strongly associated with the short-term, middle-income countries, females, young and informal workers. Food and rent …
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Big data and happiness
Rossouw, Stephanié; Greyling, Talita - 2020
The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether people have succeeded in their pursuit'? Survey data, thus far, has served us well in determining where people see themselves on their journey. However, in an everchanging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262285
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Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity : an intersectional approach
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …
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Something in the pipe : Flint water crisis and health at birth
Wang, Rui; Chen, Xi; Li, Xun - 2021
In 2014, the city of Flint, MI in the U.S. changed its public water source, resulting in severe water contamination and a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital...
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Cooking fuel choice, indoor air quality and child mortality in India
Basu, Arnab K.; Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
Indoor air pollution (IAP) - predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking - is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths worldwide in developing countries. We estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on...
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Smog in our brains : gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2017
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper studies the effects of contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive...
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Happiness in the air : how does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2017
Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health...
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