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This paper presents a model to explore the welfare effects of the government's choice over two types of public goods provision: domestic regulatory and security spending (adjudication) versus education. Output is a function of physical and social capital, both of which can be heterogeneous...
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factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences …Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …
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Although traditionally post-Keynesians tackle unemployment issues through the stimulation of aggregate demand, boosting demand indefinitely is no longer possible if we consider environmental constraints. In fact, according to several ecological economists, meeting the environmental targets of...
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This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...
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, and unpaid work, on the other, well-designed employment guarantee policies can promote job creation, gender equality, and …
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Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the … international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially among the poor. …
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gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual … understanding of gender-based asymmetries. …
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, Germany, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of … and gender regimes that exist in these countries, in ways that correspond to the lived reality of people's daily lives. …
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For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
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effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
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