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Jamet, Stéphanie; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...

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Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities

Honeycutt, Todd C.; Mann, David R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015

Despite increased prevalence among youth with disabilities, parenthood and crime did not appear to affect education or employment outcomes any more than these factors affected the outcomes of youth without disabilities.

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The contribution of the disabled to the attainment of the Europe 2020 strategy headline targets

Choi, Álvaro; Calero, Jorge - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

to take into account the actual definition of disability that is employed, the heterogeneity of circumstances to be found …

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The Returns to Education and Basic Skills Training for Individuals with Poor Health or Disability

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

This paper examines linkages between disability and health status and the returns to education and basic skills … we stratify by sex. We also estimate the wage equations stratifying by disability status (also with an appropriate … econometric correction) to permit the coefficient estimates on all the regressors to vary by disability status. Overall, we find …

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Estimating the employment effects of education for disabled workers in Norway

Aakvik, Arild - In: Empirical Economics 28 (2003) 3, pp. 515-533

In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of educational programmes used as an employment strategy for disabled workers in Norway. To obtain these estimates we follow the employment career of a sample of participants in educational programmes and nonparticipants three years after they had left...

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Enhancing Labour Utilisation in a Socially Inclusive Society in Australia

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These …

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Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility

Thompkins, Allison V. - In: Applied Economics and Finance 2 (2015) 1, pp. 76-90

People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...

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Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility

Thompkins, Allison V. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015

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Book Review of A Dream Deferred: How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can Be Done

Mohan, Brij - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 3, pp. 13-13

Brij Mohan, Dean Emeritus at Louisiana State University and a member of Poverty and Public Policy's editorial board, reviews this book that is centered around the state of education in the social work field.

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Auditing models for the detection of qualified audit opinions in the UK public services sector

Gaganis, Chrysovalantis; Pasiouras, Fotios - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 3 (2006) 4, pp. 471-493

We develop classification models that could assist auditors during the examination of firms operating in the public services sector. The sample consists of 228 firms from the Health and Social work and the Education UK sectors. The models, both sector-specific and general ones, are developed...

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