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Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Arbeitsmarkt und Rentenversicherung in Argentinien und Chile

Ruff, Barbara - 2002

�Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Arbeitsmarkt und Rentenversicherung in Argentinien und Chile.� Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich an den Beispielen von Argentinien und Chile mit den Auswirkungen sich ändernder Alters- und Arbeitsmarktstrukturen in Entwicklungsländern auf die...

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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005

The transition process from centrally planned to market economies led to a dramatic fall in GDP accompanied by a tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the costs of the transition process were not distributed...

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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries

Lo Bue, Maria Carmela - 2015

Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

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Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults : Choices over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses

Harbaugh, William; Krause, Kate; Vesterlund, Lise - 2001

. Children’s choices are consistent with the underweighting of low-probability events and the overweighting of high …

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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

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The 'growth monitoring teaching aid' rapidly improves mothers' understanding of growth curves

Sohal, H.; Wilkinson, D.; Morley, D. - 1998

Most growth monitoring programmes in developing countries have not been successful in reducing malnutrition. This is due, at least in part, to the exclusion of mothers from the process of growth monitoring. An essential requisite for greater participation is for mothers to understand the meaning...

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The Mixed Economy of Child Care: An Institutional Analysis of Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Enterprises

Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999

"Nonprofit theory predicts nonprofit enterprises will be more trustworthy than for-profit enterprises in the delivery of goods for which quality is difficult to determine because nonprofit enterprises are legally required to reinvest all profits back into the enterprise. Theoretically, consumers...

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Comparison of child body dimensions with rear seat geometry

Huang, S.; Reed, M. P. - 2006

Children who are too large for harness restraints but too small to obtain good restraint from a vehicle seatbelt alone … children to sit more comfortably without slouching. NHTSA recommends that children who do not use harness restraints use … children fit on rear seat cushions. Data from NASS-GES were analyzed to determine the age distribution of rear-seat occupants …

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