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Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States : Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs
Blattman, Christopher - 2017
The world's poor -- and programs to raise their incomes -- are increasingly concentrated in fragile states. We review the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating employment promotes social stability. Skills training and microfinance have shown little impact on poverty or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971534
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Active labor market policies and crime : unemployment increase crime among youth, while active labor market policies can mitigate the problem
Tranæs, Torben - 2015
Active labor market programs continue to receive high priority in wealthy countries despite the fact that the benefits appear small relative to the costs. This apparent discrepancy suggests that the programs may have a broader purpose than simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433542
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Work Beyond Employment : Representations of Informal Economic Activities
Williams, Colin - 2015
For much of the previous century, the informal sector was largely represented as a residue of a previous mode of production confined to marginal populations and gradually disappearing due to the inevitable and natural shift towards the formal economy across the globe. Over the past quarter of a...
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(When) Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Violence? India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict
Dasgupta, Aditya; Gawande, Kishore; Kapur, Devesh - 2016
Theory and extensive evidence connect poverty and underdevelopment to civil conflict, yet evidence on the impact of … Guarantee Scheme caused a large long-run reduction in Maoist conflict violence, as measured with an original data set based on … potential for anti-poverty programs to mitigate violent civil conflict by improving livelihoods, but also highlight the crucial …
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...
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The effect of workfare policy on crime
Fallesen, Peter; Geerdsen, Lars Pico; Imai, Susumu; … - 2010
In this paper, we focus on a novel and potentially important aspect of the workfare policy in the Danish labor market, namely its effect on crime. We do this by exploiting two policy changes. First, we examine the effect of a series of national welfare reforms introduced during the 1990s. Those...
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Crime and European labour market policy
Ochsen, Carsten - 2005
In this paper we investigate the effects of labour market policy on several types of criminal offences for fifteen European countries. The main results are the following: Firstly, the results change markedly if we control for unobserved heterogeneity. In the context of criminal offences the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883965
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The effect of workfare policy on crime
Fallesen, Peter; Pico Geerdsen, Lars; Imai, Susumu; … - 2010
In this paper, we focus on a novel and potentially important aspect of the workfare policy in the Danish labor market, namely its effect on crime. We do this by exploiting two policy changes. First, we examine the effect of a series of national welfare reforms introduced during the 1990s. Those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981835
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The effect of workfare on crime : incapacitation and program effects
Fallesen, Peter; Pico Geerdsen, Lars; Imai, Susumu; … - 2014
In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated uninsured and unemployment insured men, and part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458521
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The Role of Labor Market Regulation in Rebuilding Economic Opportunity in the U.S
Bernhardt, Annette - 2013
In the search for policy solutions to rising inequality and precariousness in the U.S., this essay argues for the central role of labor market regulation. It presents research and policy evidence for a three-pronged approach: (1) strengthening the floor of labor standards (wages, health and...
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