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This paper examines the availability of employer offered childcare and eldercare support in Canada. In addition, the associations between these support programs, gender and voluntary and involuntary part-time work are also examined. Using Statistics Canada's 2003 Workplace and Employee Survey,...
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This paper uses two representative household budget surveys from the Kyrgyz Republic to analyze factors influencing participation and returns from different types of nonfarm activities in 2005 and 2006. Nonfarm activities are found to be most important for the poor, who are pushed out of...
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In this paper I evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll taxes by 3–6 percentage points of the firms' wage sum in northern and eastern Finland. I estimate the effect of the payroll tax reduction on firms' employment levels, wage sum and profits, and on workers' hourly...
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This paper appreciates India's role as development partner for HRD in the Mekong sub-region. The paper examines bilateral HRD collaboration between India and the member countries of Mekong region with the case based analysis. The paper is presented in the four parts. Part -1 is introductory one;...
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The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
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This is a conceptual paper. The author contends that business model evolves out of economic and political philosophy prevailing in the contemporary times. This paper presents a summary of evolution of the present business model based on the economic and political ideologies, identifies the...
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Policy refers to a broad guideline framed by the government for some desired changes in a state. Policy entrepreneurs are the persons who strive to introduce desired changes in the policies. Policy entrepreneurs work with various bodies and get the policy implemented. Policy entrepreneurship is...
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This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions—members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy—are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in...
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This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...
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