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Youth Citizenship and Unemployment: The Case of Passive and Active Labour Market Policies towards the Young Unemployed in Greece

Lazaridis, Gabriella; Koumandraki, Maria - In: Sociological Research Online 5 (2001) 4

This article concentrates on youth transitions into the labour market in one EU member state, Greece. The aim is to explore ways in which the Greek state has responded to the problem of youth unemployment, looking at policies (passive and active) introduced to address this. It reveals that state...

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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Determinants of immigrants’ cash-welfare benefits intake in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) February, pp. 167-180

Purpose – Much of the literature on immigrants’ cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large … tradition of receiving immigrants and with well-established welfare states. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this … literature by analyzing differences in cash-welfare benefits receipt between immigrants and natives and their determinants in …

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EMPLOYMENT AS A FACTOR INCREASING THE POPULATION WELL-BEING IN A SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY

KULDUROVA, BATIMA - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 4 (2010) 1, pp. 88-90

The paper infers competiveness of a national economy in connection with the country’s capacity to provide sufficient and sustainable employment. The author argues the importance of reverse link that goes from sustainable employment and well-being in a country to competiveness of national...

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Ideas, Institutions, and Welfare Program Typologies: An Analysis of Pensions and Old Age Income Protection Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kpessa, Michael W. - In: Poverty & Public Policy 2 (2010) 1, pp. 4-4

<p>Since the 1980s, social policy research shifted attention from institutional development of welfare programs to what … were described as crises of the welfare state in an era of austerity. Much of the scholarly debate in this area had focused … on the maturation of welfare programs, especially the post-war old age income support programs in the advanced …

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Poverty: social control over our labor force

Yanagisawa, Anton - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) March, pp. 316-329

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and sociological literature to analyze differing...

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Welfare and Higher Education in EU Member States – Comparative Analysis

Wronowska, Gabriela - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2014

market. In the first part of this paper, the author presents the phenomenon of welfare by taking into account its measurement …

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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Determinants of immigrants’ cash‐welfare benefits intake in Spain

Rodríguez‐Planas, Núria - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) 2, pp. 167-180

Purpose – Much of the literature on immigrants’ cash‐welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large … tradition of receiving immigrants and with well‐established welfare states. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this … literature by analyzing differences in cash‐welfare benefits receipt between immigrants and natives and their determinants in …

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Analysis of subjective wellbeing in low-income transitional countries: evidence from comparative national surveys in Armenia,Azerbaijan and Georgia

Nazim, Habibov; Elvin, Afandi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Drawing on the comparative household surveys, this article examines subjective wellbeing in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, three low-income transitional countries located on the Caucasus. We found that economic factors explain a considerable part of the variation in subjective wellbeing. The...

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