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Impact of adverse economic shocks on the Indian child labour market and the schooling of children of poor households

Karan Singh, B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...

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Gender stereotyping and wage discrimination among Italian graduates

Castagnetti, Carolina; Rosti, Luisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper addresses the gender pay gap among Italian university graduates on entry to the labour market and stresses the importance of gender stereotypes on subjective assessment of individual productivity. Our data show that in contexts where the stereotype is most likely to occur, the...

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Brain Drain from Central and Eastern Europe

Bobeva, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

When communism collapsed many feared that the resulting 'brain drain' would both cripple the economies of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and finally result in a flow of scientific and technical expertise into undesirable weapon development. A collaborative survey carried out in ten...

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Does Social Capital Mitigate Precariousness?

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....

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Labour Market Institutions and Labour Market Performance in the European Union

Michal, Tvrdon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

has created a set of institutional aspects such as employment protection legislation, structure of wage bargaining … on employment or unemployment. The second chapter is composed of the comparative analysis of selected criteria and … level of employment. The author assumes that improving these indicators is one of the most important tasks for political …

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Work status and family planning: insights from the Italian puzzle

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper uses a dataset built by the author on the basis of raw data taken from different national surveys to carry out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of couples’ childbearing decisions in Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple matter”, the...

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Transformation of Labour Relations

Pillai, Rajasekharan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

international scenario. The study focuses on tourism sector, both due to its growth potential and due to its employment significance …

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