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Education is a fundamental human right and it is a global Sustainable Development Goal to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded from educational opportunities at great cost to...
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This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...
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This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States' coastlines and estimated industry...
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Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then …
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We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), make inquires to Swedish schools about admission for their children to the compulsory...
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physical disability and social support among older adults with cognitive impairment living alone, and their gender and racial …/ethnic disparities. Information on physical disability and social support was collected through measures of basic and instrumental … binary and integer outcomes, respectively. Among those who reported BADL/IADL disability, the proportion unsupported for …
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and present empirical evidence of heterogeneity in the response to the NPIs with those in the local employment being the …
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history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … characteristics, in determining the individual’s disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that … baseline health affects future health service utilisation very strongly, via functional disability as a mediating outcome. Our …
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In this study, we study disability among older people (aged 60 or older) using the 2016 Viet Nam National Disability … remarkably higher than the disability rate identified by local authorities. Disability is found to be more prevalent in older … people and women. There is a strong and negative association between education and disability, as well as between wealth and …
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This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the …
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