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research should address relate to internal migration and South-South migration, the role of gender and other social identities … along North-North, South- North, and South-South migration flows. Portability of social security entitlements is the ability …, among their families. The paper uses a gender perspective where possible as part of an intersectional approach. We find that …
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Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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drawn from the household income and expenditure survey, the poverty situation, gender inequality, and poverty reduction …
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Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...
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Immigrant access to social protection in the Netherlands has changed quite markedly over time. This paper discusses the changes from an historical perspective and introduces a theoretical framework (the Welfare Pentagon) explaining how immigrants cope with (economic) hardship when they do not...
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Immigrant access to social protection in the Netherlands has changed quite markedly over time. This paper discusses the changes from an historical perspective and introduces a theoretical framework (the Welfare Pentagon) explaining how immigrants cope with (economic) hardship when they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643537
Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen am chinesischen Arbeitsmarkt. Sie analysiert die Funktion chinesischer Gewerkschaften und die Rolle von Tarifverhandlungen im Lohnfindungsprozess, aber auch die grundlegende Frage, ob Chinas Reservoir an billigen...
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further evidence on the origins of this mental health gender-gap using data from 789 adults, primarily spousal pairs, from 300 … families in Delhi, India. These data were collected between 2001 and 2003. We first confirm that, like in other studies, women … report higher levels of mental distress and that gender differences in education, household expenditures and age do not …
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene can have a profound effect on health and nutrition. A growing base of evidence on the link between sanitation, child height, and well-being has come at an opportune time, when the issue of sanitation and nutrition in developing countries has moved to the top of the...
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