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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and Their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024923
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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy
Machin, Stephen J. - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … Germans became narrower over time.Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088336
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
Koettl, Johannes - 2014
approach. Using EU-SILC 2008 data and OECD Tax and Benefit data for six Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic …
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2013
comparison to migrants from the new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EUA8 countries). Migrants from the EaP countries …
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
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Mobility in an Enlarging European Union : Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia
Fertig, Michael - 2013
-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …
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EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market
Barrett, Alan - 2009
countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic …. Based on census information, the number of EU10 nationals living in Ireland grew from around 10,000 in 2002 to 120,000 in … 2006. Data on inflows suggests that this number could have reached 200,000 by 2008 or 4.5 percent of the population. The EU …
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