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Active Inclusion of Immigrants in Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej - 2012
Poland has traditionally been treated as an emigration country. Since recently Poland has been changing into an … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We … propose also recommendations for the pre-integration and integration policy in Poland. The goal of the paper is modest since …
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence from China
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households...
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Love on the Rocks : Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
Angelucci, Manuela - 2007
What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants, making the effects of changes in wife's and husband's income ambiguous. This paper estimates the effects of exogenous changes in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol...
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2019
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce economic inequities. Yet the impact of this program is mitigated if those eligible fail to enroll. This...
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
de Brauw, Alan - 2012
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...
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The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem - 2017
Rural households in Ethiopia are exposed to a variety of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, the Ethiopian government introduced the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and in 2011 launched the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme (CBHI). This paper analyses the interaction between...
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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi : A Gender Perspective
Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - 2021
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...
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