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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013
Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very … little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced … drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents'' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330027
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399582
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339681
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Determinants of empowerment in a capability-based poverty approach : evidence from the Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia; Klasen, Stephan; Leßmann, Ortrud - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 1-15
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - In: Journal of African economies 18 (2009) 1, pp. 1-51
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827497
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have no unemployment insurance nor informal sector activities to fall back on. This paper examines how the unemployed are able to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001614323
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001573264
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UNDP's Gender-related Measures: Some Conceptual Problems and Possible Solutions
Klasen, Stephan - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 7 (2006) 2, pp. 243-274
's two gender-related indicators: the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure. While supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219232
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Surviving Unemployment Without State Support : Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2010
While in many African countries open unemployment is largely confined to urban areas and thus overall rates are quite low, in South Africa open unemployment rates hover around 30%, with rural unemployment rates being even higher than that. This is despite the near complete absence of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211910
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Surviving Unemployment Without State Support : Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2003
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133716