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Abstract We examine theoretically and empirically how wage subsidies and minimum wages interact regarding to employment opportunities, and how these interactive effects vary across different groups of workers. Assuming a neoclassical labor market and heterogeneous work, subsidized low-skilled...
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Abstract This case study demonstrates the far-reaching impact on product quality when private firms were legally recognized and allowed to operate with their own brand names. Previously, when the private firms were forced to affiliate themselves with a governmental organization to get around the...
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In a risky world should governments provide public goods that reduce risk or compensate the victims of bad outcomes through social insurance? This article examines a basic question in designing social protection policies: how should a government allocate a fixed budget between these two...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inform readers about the nature of talent development prior to post-secondary education; describe the obstacles that individuals face because of poverty, racism or geography; and recommend asset-based approaches that can enable more individuals to be...
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of various personal characteristics, including obesity, smoking cessation, happiness, and loneliness. Those papers also …
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There has been a long debate about whether there is a link between tobacco advertising and children′s smoking. Reviews … advertising does influence children′s smoking.  …
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Recent research has suggested that those exposed to passive smoking may incur an increased risk of contracting lung … cancer. In the light of such findings, many employers have faced increasing demands from the workforce to introduce smoking … guidance is offered on the extent to which employment law protects the interests of those workers whose smoking habit makes it …
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Smoking is a health hazard to both the smoker and non‐smoker who must breathe secondhand smoke. Increasingly the non … concerning smoking, they should seriously consider implementing such a policy.  …
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marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … two years. These results on the whole imply that marriage internalizes the negative externalities of smoking and thus … leads smokers to reduce smoking.  …
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smoking behavior of women. Differential increases in federal EITC benefits by family size in the mid-1990s allow for a … comparison of smoking status changes between mothers with one and more than one child. We exploit these changes in a difference … smoking was concentrated among those with some college.  …
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