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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia - 2008
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over 'typical' years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of...
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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...
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Chile despertó - The reasons for the mass protests in Chile 2019/2020
Sasse, Lea - 2021
Starting on 18 October 2019, Chile experienced the largest mass protests in its history. The movement was immensely broad in its demands and diverse in tactics and participants. The citizens' discontent went beyond solely one issue, addressing a more equal welfare system and social justice,...
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Exclusion, Marginalization and Peripheralization: Conceptual concerns in the study of urban inequalities
Bernt, Matthias; Colini, Laura - 2013
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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; Lopéz, Marta - 2007
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317905
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Disability-based labour market inequalities
Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024
Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054234
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336024
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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy
Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010
individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy, and it increases the … year is the main source of the impact. Joblessness-related negative attitude towards the effectiveness of democracy is not …
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Education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …
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