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Policy sequences during and after COVID-19: A review of labour market policy patterns

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022

After an initial policy emphasis on stabilizing jobs and income through job retention and various types of income support measures, more subsequent country responses to the economic shock generated by the COVID-19 pandemic also include policies to support labour market (re-)entry. This policy...

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Job retention schemes during COVID-19: A review of policy responses

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022

This policy brief provides an update on job retention policies in a sample of 20 countries representing the main world regions as well as the diverse types of job retention schemes, in particular short-time work, furlough and wage subsidy schemes as they have been implemented in response to the...

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Promoting youth employment during COVID-19: A review of policy responses

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022

market and economic measures, which ultimately also benefit younger people, youth-targeted measures are needed given the … actual policy responses in the area of youth employment during the COVID-19 crisis in 20 selected countries. If such measures …, broader policy support continues to be needed, including specific policy measures targeting youth. …

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Incorporating the advantages of clickers and mobile devices to teach Economics to non-economists

Mu, Hairong; Paparas, Dimitrios - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-10

economics to non-economists is evaluated by a student survey. …

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Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda

Chicoine, Luke E.; Guzman, Juan Carlos - 2016

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...

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Investigating the relevance of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in West Africa

Ejemeyovwi, Jeremiah O.; Osabuohien, Evans - 2018

This paper empirically investigates the role of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in 15 West African countries with a view to ascertaining if the positive role of mobile technology adoption on human development as established in other regions holds in West Africa. It used data from...

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Responsible use of crop protection products and Nigeria's growth enhancement support scheme

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2018

We examine the impact of the federal government of Nigeria's (FGN) growth enhancement support scheme (GESS) on responsible use of crop protection products (CPPs) in rural Nigeria. Results from the use of logistic regressions show that GESS significantly impact on farmers' access to CP Ps, but...

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Evaluation of a mobile learning system to support correct medication use for health promotion

Shiue, Ya-Ming; Hsu, Yu-Chiung; Sheng, Meng-Huei; Lan, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 242-252

Recently, the applications of mobile technology integration into innovative pedagogical approaches have resulted in new opportunities and challenges. The rapid development of mobile technology encourages student participation, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the social interaction...

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Adoption of mGovernment service initiative in developing countries: A citizen-centric public service delivery perspective

Oghuma, Apollos Patricks; Park, Myeong-cheol; Rho, Jae Jeung - 2012

The phenomenal advancement of mobile technologies and the large penetration of mobile phones in developing countries have provided alternative solutions to re-engineer public service delivery mechanism. Governments are now challenged to deliver an expanding set of services to citizen given the...

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News or noise: Mobile internet technology and stock market activity

Brown, Nerissa C.; Elliott, W. Brooke; Wermers, Russ; … - 2021

Mobile internet devices reduce trading frictions and information search costs for investors, but also introduce attention-competing activities,such as social networking. We use exogenous nationwide and city-level outages of the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) to investigate the effect of...

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