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Surveying Romanian Migrants in Italy Before and After the EU Accession: Migration Plans, Labour Market Features and Social Inclusion
Mara, Isilda - 2012
This report describes the migration patterns of Romanian migrants in Italy before and after the accession of Romania into the European Union (EU). The findings and the main results presented throughout the report were collected by carrying out a survey in three main cities of Italy Milan, Turin...
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Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013
Mahrt, Kristi; Nanivazo, Malokele - 2015
growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …
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Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …
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The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2001
participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the … child care. These expenditures are then included as an independent variable predicting the probability of welfare recipiency … welfare recipiency, with a child care price elasticity of welfare recipiency equaling 0.28. The estimated child care price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763232
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Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS
Wogart, Jan Peter - 2006
By using a game theoretical approach and the notion of 'forum' or 'regime shifting' this paper examines the multiple interfaces of the multinational pharmaceutical corporations (MNPCs) with their major counterparts at home and abroad, including the governments of the North and South, the...
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Regional estimates of multidimensional poverty in India
Dehury, Bidyadhar; Mohanty, Sanjay K. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-36, pp. 1-35
This paper estimates and decomposes multidimensional poverty in 82 natural regions in India using unit data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2011-12. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, education, living standard and household environment using eight...
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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
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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 gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family, and gender inequality....
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Differential influence of phytase supplementation on the balance of phosphorus and other elements in laying hens' feed
Sobolewska, Sylwia; Orda, Janusz; Budny-Walczak, Anna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 15 (2015) 4, pp. 461-468
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of microbial phytase addition to laying hen diet on the balance of phosphorus, calcium, manganese and zinc. Phytase supplementation caused a decrease in phosphorus excretion by 8% in the group with low-phytase diet and 21% in the group with...
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Homework assignment and student achievement in OECD countries
Falch, Torberg; Rønning, Marte - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of assigning homework on student achievement using data from 16 OECD countries that participated in TIMSS 2007. The model exploits withinstudent variation in homework across subjects in a sample of primary school students who have the same teacher in two related...
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