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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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We study the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of our sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11...
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mothers’ careers: interruptions, part time employment and lesser wage. The institutional structure in the United States does …
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. Theses trends are compared to the French and the Swedish cases. In general, gender inequalities have decreased since the 1950 …?s. But in average, gender gaps are larger in the United States than they are in France or in Sweden. Even though, the … conclusion of the paper is that the average decrease of gender inequalities in the USA have been came along with an explosion of …
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business leaders: do they vary by gender and religiosity?', Business and Society, Vol. 45, pp.300-321. Our survey findings … a range of similar attitudes. However, we found that gender and religiosity have a greater influence on ethical …
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This paper examines employment-focused policies in the U.S. disability system and summarizes rigorous evaluations of … promoting employment, given that many interventions have gone untested and most U.S. disability programs include work …
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offers lessons for delivering intervention services, tracking services, and evaluating U.K. employment initiatives for people … additional supports—especially supported employment services—for participants with psychiatric conditions, providing more …
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likely economic and employment impacts are explored. These agreements not only liberalise trade, but also open service …
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This article uses household-level survey data on income and employment to compare labour market dynamics across a range … of advanced economies, including Australia. The analysis focuses on how changes in employment status are distributed … studied. In particular, lower-income households are more likely to have moved into or out of employment but less likely to …
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