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decreased overall employment, certain people, groups, and communities have undergone disruptive change and experienced falling … policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …
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study of education expenditure in Kenya, we show that our understanding of the distributional implications of public …
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incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with some nuances. Wealthy households are mostly opting out of the public education system, and the middle-class is split …
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private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with some nuances. Wealthy households are mostly opting out of the public education system, and the middle-class is split …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540543
, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education … interventions such as expanding early-childhood education, by reducing grade-repetition and through more tailored support for those …
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on education and employment outcomes on children exposed to EITC expansions in childhood. Reduced-form results suggest ….2 percent. Instrumental variables analysis reveals that the primarily channel through which the EITC improves education and … employment outcomes among children is through increases in pre-tax family income …
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Croatia’s labour market has made important progress over the past decade. Employment rates are rising, reducing the gap … education programmes, and raising the workforce’s flexibility, for example by strengthening active labour market policies …
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Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
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supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates … that the employment of graduates in non-graduate jobs has declined over time. Hence, there is no evidence of an over …
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