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Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty … education system is a long-term mission and involves raising its pedagogical strength and orientation towards professional needs …. A social welfare system dominated by pensions has not been able to prevent a steep hike in poverty among children and …
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This study examines the effects on workers from the labor-demand response to the costs of mandated maternity and parental leave programs. Japan introduced generous parental leave policies in the 1990s, but for many years, firms still had to pay for the worker's social insurance payments during...
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We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low birth weight, attributable to shortened gestation....
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This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...
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gap by enhancing the provision of early childhood education and care. To contribute to the debate on the revision of the …
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This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …
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