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Financial development and poverty reduction in India: an empirical investigation
Sehrawat, Madhu; Giri, A K - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 2, pp. 106-122
reduction in India using annual data from 1970 to 2012. The paper attempts to answer the critical question: does financial … financial development and poverty reduction for India. The ARDL test results suggest that financial development and economic … implies that poverty in India can be reduced by financial inclusion and financial accessibility to the poor. For a fast …
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When „the Rest“ enters „the West“: Indischer Tourismus in die Zentralschweiz
Frank, Sybille - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 4 (2012) 2, pp. 221-230
Zusammenfassung Bis vor kurzem führten touristische Reiserouten in der Regel vom globalen „Westen“ in den so genannten „Rest der Welt“. Doch was passiert, wenn Menschen aus dem globalen Osten und Süden plötzlich in der Rolle zu bedienst leistender Touristinnen vor den Türen...
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Aktivierung! Oder De-Aktivierung? Intensität und Wirkungen der Aktivierung bei älteren ALG II-Bezieher/ innen / Activation! Or de-activation? Intensity and effects of activation on...
Brussig, Martin; Knuth, Matthias - In: Arbeit 19 (2010) 4, pp. 253-266
Abstract In dem Aufsatz werden die Intensität und die Wirkungen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Aktivierung für ältere ALG II-Bezieher/innen (ab 50 Jahren) im Vergleich zu jüngeren (30 bis 49 Jahre) untersucht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Dienstleistungselementen des Aktivierungsprozesses, wie...
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Nicht-Erwerbsbeteiligung und subjektive Wahrnehmung von Teilhabeangeboten / Non-employment and the subjective perceptions of participation offers
Obermeier, Tim; Schultheis, Kathrin; Tiedemann, Birte - In: Arbeit 23 (2014) 3, pp. 193-210
Abstract Auf Basis einer Auswertung des Panels Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung (PASS) gehen wir der Frage nach, wer die dauerhaft vom Arbeitsmarkt ausgeschlossenen Personen sind, und prüfen mit Hilfe einer binären logistischen Regression den Einfluss verschiedener Vermittlungshemmnisse. An...
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Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 1, pp. 65-85
. Workfare could be an efficient strategy to overcome such disincentives by introducing a work requirement for unemployed welfare … recipients. In our paper we investigate the importance of such a supply side policy. We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a …
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The Objections against Workfare Revised
Lohse, Tim - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 1, pp. 95-118
Abstract Opponents of work obligations in return for transfer payments argue that workfare can crowd out private sector … work, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes … these objections against workfare in a discrete optimal income tax model. Workfare productivity emerges to be the crucial …
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The state, employment, and regulation: making work not pay
Grady, Jo - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 3, pp. 274-290
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of specific active labour market policies (ALMP) and increased use of zero hour contracts (ZHCs) in creating an environment in which low-wage jobs flourish. Alongside these, it examines the role of financialization over the last 30 years...
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Rural people's perception of income adequacy in China
Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 264-280
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate rural people's perception of income adequacy in order to understand how it is affected by income in the county where the respondent lives, age of household members, as well as number of household members. The paper also aims to find out how...
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Tourist scams in the city: challenges for domestic travellers in urban China
Li, Jing; Pearce, Philip - In: International Journal of Tourism Cities 2 (2016) 4, pp. 294-308
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify dominant scams against domestic tourists in popular tourism cities in China. There are two questions of concern: what types of scams do domestic tourists experience and are the patterns of scams different between the capital and regional cities?...
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Assessment of women accessibility to health-care facilities in a typical rural local government area in Nigeria
Adeniyi, Lateef Adeleke; Fatoke, Michael Temidayo; … - In: Journal of Facilities Management 21 (2021) 2, pp. 282-297
Purpose This study aims to assess the accessibility of women to health-care facilities in the rural areas with a view to unties possible recommendation of enhancing its service delivery. It provides an insight into the levels of satisfaction of the services provided by conventional health-care...
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