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Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and …
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La presente monografía muestra una mirada sobre los cuidados de las personas mayores ofrecidos por cuidadoras inmigrantes en el ámbito familiar en Madrid, en un mercado informal. A ello se llega a través de los discursos proporcionados por los actores que intervienen en ese proceso, las...
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This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...
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Empirical findings that minorities typically attain lower economic status than majorities and that relatively larger minorities perform worse than smaller ones pose a challenge to economics.To explain this scale puzzle, I model an economy where the society is bifurcated into two social groups...
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and employment patterns of doctorate holders. Then, it looks at some important specificities of the doctoral job market …, such as employment in research and patterns of job-to-job and international mobility. The study reveals a sustained labour …, however, fare relatively worse in terms of employment rates. While temporary positions are increasingly common in academics …
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Today there are two tendencies in apparent contradiction: increasing globalisation and the rise of cultural, religious and national individualities. In the struggle for equity, human rights have followed society from the individual to the universal organization; from civil rights to the...
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This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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Human capital is invariably found to be an important explanatory variable of various proxies of well being (WB), i.e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to explain its various and interconnected functions. The...
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