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In this paper we explore the question of the sustainability of the intergenerational contract that is represented by the current structure of social welfare. We argue that sustainability and time consistency of social welfare policies could be improved by more explicit recognition of the social...
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outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic …. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings were markedly to the advantage of women. A large … part of the population was lifted out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education and school construction reforms …
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types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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education on life insurance and non-life insurance consumption in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Education is … established. First, from the nexuses between education, ICT and life insurance, there are positive conditional effects from the …-life insurance: (i) there is a negative net effect from the interactions between mobile phone penetration and primary education while …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic consumption events, while bankruptcy is governed by the basic … importance of the two chapters (7 and 13) for each of our two education groups that differ in both preferences and wage profiles …
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they are conditional on investment, such as investment in education. They do this primarily by facilitating acquisition of …
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productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …
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innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …
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