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"One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I review the facts on insurance coverage and the nature of the...
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This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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"Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all twenty-eight EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. Additional...
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"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now … the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the … rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still …
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