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Diverse disability
Berthoud, Richard - 2014
Policy has long been based on the assumption that disabled people are either capable, or incapable, of work. This paper extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability employment penalty varies by number, type, severity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396823
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Business viability : a comparison between franchises and independent businesses / by Joyce Lewis
Lewis, Josephine Edwardine - 2009
The study is based on a comparison between franchises and independent businesses. The purpose of the study is to have a clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of SMEs and franchise businesses in Rustenburg (North West Province) and its environs. A number of textbooks, published...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480653
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Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?
Parsons, Sam; Bryson, Alex; Sullivan, Alice - 2021
Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with conduct problems went on to spend fewer months both in paid employment, and in employment, education...
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Housing Prices, Unemployment Rates, Disadvantage, and Progress toward a Degree
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017
Rising unemployment and housing price appreciation are associated with increased college enrollment. Enrollment does not, however, guarantee completion. We use a discrete time, competing hazard function that accommodates individual-specific heterogeneity to assess the impact changing...
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Trends in the employment of disabled people in Britain
Berthoud, Richard - 2011
The number of people claiming incapacity benefits increased rapidly to the mid 1990s, and has hardly reduced since then. This paper uses survey data to plot trends over time in the prevalence of disability, and in the employment rates of disabled people, in a way which is independent of, but...
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New Cycles of Disadvantage?
Lee, Anthony; Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
This report summarises presentations and discussion at a conference on ‘New Cycles ofDisadvantage’ organised by CASE on behalf of the Economic and Social Research Councilfor the Treasury and other central government departments. It took place at Stoke RochfordHall near Grantham on 27-28...
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Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of SocialExclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study
Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
correlates of adult disadvantage. For males, in particular,evidence of childhood aggression is also a consistent and fairly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354050
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Disability and disadvantage: Selection, onset, and duration effects
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled personsof working-age using data from the British … Household Panel Survey. We arguethat there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: preexistingdisadvantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354054
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Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young AdultDisadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort
Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in … disadvantage tosubsequent adult disadvantage and pay particular attention to whether thepathways involved or the responsiveness to … associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage for both men andwomen, and the specific antecedents, that show fewer but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354062
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Diverse disability
Berthoud, Richard - 2014
Policy has long been based on the assumption that disabled people are either capable, or incapable, of work. This paper extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability employment penalty varies by number, type, severity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348245