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Inmigración y cuidados de mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid
 … - Fundación BBVA
La presente monografía muestra una mirada sobre los cuidados de las personas mayores ofrecidos por cuidadoras inmigrantes en el ámbito familiar en Madrid, en un mercado informal. A ello se llega a través de los discursos proporcionados por los actores que intervienen en ese proceso, las...
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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...
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Social Interaction and the Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality : Why Being a Minority Hurts but being a big Minority Hurts More
Kahanec, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004
Empirical findings that minorities typically attain lower economic status than majorities and that relatively larger minorities perform worse than smaller ones pose a challenge to economics.To explain this scale puzzle, I model an economy where the society is bifurcated into two social groups...
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Doctorate Holders: Labour Market and Mobility Indicators
Auriol, Laudeline; Misu, Max; Freeman, Rebecca - In: Foresight-Russia 7 (2013) 4, pp. 16-42
and employment patterns of doctorate holders. Then, it looks at some important specificities of the doctoral job market …, such as employment in research and patterns of job-to-job and international mobility. The study reveals a sustained labour …, however, fare relatively worse in terms of employment rates. While temporary positions are increasingly common in academics …
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Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring: Real Activity, Inflation, and Interactions
Aruoba, S. Boragan; Diebold, Francis X. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 20-24
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Great expectations. The unintended consequences of educational choices
FERRANTE, FRANCESCO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Human capital is invariably found to be an important explanatory variable of various proxies of well being (WB), i.e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to explain its various and interconnected functions. The...
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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?
Herd, Richard; Conway, Paul; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...
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Revisiting the Link Between Poverty and Child Labor: The Ghanaian Experience
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Verner, Dorthe - Institut for Marketing og Organisation, Aarhus Universitet - 2001
underlying harmful child labor in Ghana across gender, across rural/urban location as well as across poverty quintiles of …
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Migratory flows and human capital mobility
Cabrer, Bernardí; Serrano, Guadalupe; Simarro, Rocío - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 16, pp. 5-42
This paper focuses on estimating interregional human capital migration flows in Spain, based on the assumption of key hypothesis on data and temporal characteristics of educated population migration flows. The results point to the increasing intensity of medium and high educated gross migration...
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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...
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