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New Forms of Employment and the Social Security System: The Case of Germany
Fachinger, Uwe; UF - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
.g. unemployment, invalidity, illness, or the possibility to save for an adequate pension) within the social security system. From an …
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Group Wage Curves
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
prices, are affected by overall MSA unemployment, the distribution of unemployment among different groups, and national … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high-unemployment …
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A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation
Groot, Loek; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Johnson, Rucker; Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The school finance reforms (SFRs) that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the most dramatic changes in the structure of K-12 education spending in U.S. history. We analyze the effects of these reforms on the level and distribution of school district spending, as...
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Intergenerational Persistence of Industry of Employment in India
Nandi, Tushar K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative sample, we find that 62% young Indian men are employed in the same industry where their fathers are also employed. A set of simulations that assign young men randomly across...
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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Karoly, Lynn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Transfer payments to poor families are increasingly conditioned on work, either via wage subsidies available only to workers or via work requirements in more traditional welfare programs. Although the effects of such programs on employment are fairly well understood, relatively little is known...
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Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia:The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo; Nuñez, Jairo - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2008
We use data from Bogotá and Medellín to describe key quality of life indicators of each city and illustrate their spatial segregation at the census sector level and present evidence that the main two Colombian cities are highly spatially segregated according to their education levels and...
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A Research Note on the Linkage between Poverty and Child Labour in India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Throughout the world child labour has been an area of lively debate for about a decade with many different viewpoints on the issue. It is argued that in developing countries with poverty, inequality, social norms, credit-land-labour market imperfections, high fertility and unpredictable...
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism
Carrington, William J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload, even less is known about its impact on the experiences...
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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