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Utsatthetens olika ansikten: Begreppsöversikt och analys
Alm, Susanne; Bäckman, Olof; Gavanas, Anna; Kumlin, Johanna - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2010
This paper has two purposes: the first is to give an introduction to and an analysis of the most important concepts for describing social disadvantage in contemporary Sweden – poverty, social exclusion and the concept “utanförskap”. The latter is difficult to give a proper English...
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Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884155
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Impact of Living or Working Environments on Persons with Disabilities
Liu, Wei - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
This paper assesses quantitatively the importance of living or working environmental constraints in people's activity limitations in day-to-day work/school and participation restrictions (such as joining in community activities). It applies an Ordered Logit Model to examine data from a WHO/ESCAP...
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Foreign nationality and age: A double drawback for reemployment in Germany?
Bruder, Jana; Frosch, Katharina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2006
We analyze reemployment prospects for Germans and non-Germans over the life course. Older foreigners may experience a double drawback due to health issues, discrimination or differences in occupational structure. This effect might be alleviated by accumulation of country-specific skills over...
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Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: 1962-1983 and 1983-1989
Wolff, Edward N. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1994
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Who Suffers during Recessions?
Hoynes, Hilary; Miller, Douglas L.; Schaller, Jessamyn - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 3, pp. 27-48
In this paper, we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we compare the cyclical sensitivity during the Great...
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Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as … economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland's older population is the remarkably high proportion of … returned migrants, that is, former emigrants who have returned to live in Ireland. According to the TILDA data over 20 per cent …
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How do Immigrants Fare in Retirement
Schmidt, Lucie; Sevak, Purvi - Economics Department, Williams College - 2013
The extensive literature documenting differences in wages between immigrants and US-born workers suggests immigrant households may enter retirement at a significant financial disadvantage relative to households headed by the native-born. However, little work has examined differences in...
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Does a Mature AIDS Epidemic Threaten Growth?
Cuesta, José A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 462-66
Immigrants residing among many coethnics are especially likely to receive SSI for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the likely sources of these network effects...
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