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Work-family reconciliation policies and women's and mothers' labor market outcomes in rich democracies
Brady, David; Blome, Agnes; Kmec, Julie A. - 2018
Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of … social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship … between the two most prominent work-family reconciliation policies (paid parental leave and public childcare coverage) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961108
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Returns to migration, education, and externalities in the European Union
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - 2010
Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European Union (EU) for the period 1994-2001 in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702098
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A counterfactual decomposition analysis of immigrants-natives earnings in Malaysia
Anees, Muhammad; Sajjad, Muhammad; Ahmed, Ishfaq - 2011
Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory describes wage determination as a function of labour human capital and should be determined based on marginal productivity theorem of labour economics. Islamic theology also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382446
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The remarkable place of the UV-Curve in economic theory
Rodenburg, Peter - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the impact the UV-curve had on economic theory and to provide an account of the subsequent radical changes in its place and role over the decades since its first appearance in 1958. The paper traces the historical development of the UV-curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373832
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Regional estimates of multidimensional poverty in India
Dehury, Bidyadhar; Mohanty, Sanjay K. - 2015
the paper are inclusion of a direct economic variable (consumption expenditure, work and employment) to quantify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379707
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Models as measuring instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
Nancy Cartwright views models as blueprints for nomological machines - machines which, if properly shielded, generate lawlike behaviour or regularities. Marcel Boumans has argued that we can look for devices inside models which enable us to measure aspects of these regularities. So, if models do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337991
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Multiple causation and the measurement of unemployment
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337994
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Tracing the changing measures of unemployment in Dutch unemployment statistics 1900 - 1940
Rodenburg, Peter - 2001
In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317467
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The headmaster ritual : the importance of management for school outcomes
Böhlmark, Anders; Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012
The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625476
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction : focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede G. - 2004
Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400001