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underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These …
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Addressing the extra economic costs of disability is a logical step towards alleviating elements of social exclusion … for people with disabilities. This study estimates the long-run economic cost of disability in Ireland in terms of the … additional spending needs that arise due to disability. It defines and estimates models of the private costs borne by families …
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on the evolution of disability. We use data from the HID survey, a two-wave panel, which makes it possible to estimate … transitions towards or out of disability. These transitions, as well as the disability rates at the beginning of the simulation … the life expectancy with disability at age 60 remains stable, there should be 1.2 million disabled elderly people in 2040 …
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to employed. Additionally, the empirical finding that the level of disability was insignificant in determining subjective … to disability, in contrast to findings in the psychology literature. …
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The recent crisis has had differential effects across U.S. states and industries causing a wide geographic dispersion in skill mismatches and housing market performance. We document these facts and, using data from the 50 states plus D.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that...
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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle school increased in the short term by...
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Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … disabilities and their households in 2003 in the countries under study, it can inform national disability policies. Finally, this … study can also inform future data and research efforts on disability in developing countries. This study is structured as …
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Can communal heterogeneity explain persistent educational inequities in developing countries? The paper uses a novel data-set from rural Pakistan that explicitly recognizes the geographic structure of villages and the social makeup of constituent hamlets to show that demand for schooling is...
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disability over a lifetime. Earlier micromort values are supplemented with microdisability values to enable individuals to make …
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working-age people. Like other OECD countries, Australia has experienced growth in the number of Disability Support Pension …, this article considers interactions between the new disability payment system being implemented through Welfare to Work …
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