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This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy …
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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
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Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability. By employing a dynamic panel data model of labour...
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on the employment probability at the second date. In our study, the probability of naturalization between two census … effect of naturalization on the individual employment probability by estimating a univariate probit model. To control for the … immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. …
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The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...
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We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position...
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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
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empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment … rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment. …
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. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after … training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …
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The costs of incarceration and recidivism to the community are substantial. These costs not only include the direct costs of imprisonment but also the opportunity costs arising from depletion of human capital and loss of output. Policy makers have emphasised the importance of rehabilitating...
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