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Sozialpolitik bei Budgetengpässen und Fiskalpakt
Aiginger, Karl - 2012
Europe is in the throes of budgetary consolidation, tightening its fiscal rules. It could not prevent the recession of 2012 and the inexorable growth of debt, especially in Southern Europe, while unemployment spreads and the social gap widens. Social policy is mostly a national matter, but is...
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Determinants of the Growth Elasticity of Poverty Reduction. Why the Impact on Poverty Reduction is Large in Some Developing Countries and Small in Others
Wieser, Christina - 2011
This paper investigates the determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty by using the internationally designed … poverty line, measured by the share of the population living below USD 1.25 per day. We identify the determinants of changes … in the poverty rate of countries using single and multiple OLS regressions as well as fixed effects. Empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435326
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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; de Haas, Ralph; … - 2014
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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Poverty and transitions in health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - 2013
find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319175
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Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen im Geschlechterverhältnis: Das Beispiel Elterngeld
Wiechmann, Elke; Oppen, Maria - 2008
Mit der Beobachtung zunehmender Ungleichheit ist auch die Frage nach der sozialen Gerechtigkeit in die gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion zurückgekehrt. Ein Beispiel ist das neue Elterngeld. Hieran entzündete sich eine kontroverse Debatte, die die Auseinandersetzung um die Deutungsmacht über...
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Sharing risk: on social risk management and the governance of labour market transitions
Schmid, Günther - 2006
This is a paper based on the annual lecture in honour of Hugo Sinzheimer at November 10, 2005, Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institute at the University of Amsterdam. In 1928, Sinzheimer wrote an article entitled 'Die Demokratisierung des Arbeitsverhältnisses,' (The Democratisation of the Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304044
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Arbeitszeit und Reproduktionsarbeit: Zusammenhänge und Wechselwirkungen am Beispiel der Teilzeitarbeit
Rüling, Anneli - 2001
In diesem Diskussionspapier wird untersucht, ob sich durch die Flexibilisierung der Arbeitszeit Potentiale für mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit ergeben. Als normatives Konzept werden Prinzipien der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit von Nancy Fraser herangezogen, die eine Umverteilung von...
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Child-Care Costs and Mothers' Employment Rates. An Empirical Analysis for Austria
Mahringer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2012
The availability of affordable institutional child-care is increasingly discussed as an important determinant of the labour force participation of parents, particularly of mothers. This paper examines the impact of child-care costs on the employment rates of mothers with children younger than 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435362
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Diversity of Welfare Systems in the EU: A Challenge for Policy Coordination
Biffl, Gudrun - 2003
As the EU economies and societies become increasingly integrated, and as labour market behaviour patterns converge across borders, the EU strives to develop a substantially common social identity. To this end, it seeks to promote the development of a sustainable institutional framework which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435130
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Entwicklung und Formen von Flexibilität und sozialer Absicherung in den EU-Staaten: Ein Überblick
Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2006
Tertiarisation, globalisation, technologisation, demographic change and international migration combine to produce changes that affect many spheres of life: new markets are opening up, technological progress accelerates, the usefulness of original education declines, training and ongoing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435196