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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Villena, Mauricio G.; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the effects generated by the financial burden of childcare...

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Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads

Bartik, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

Previous studies of the macro-economic determinants of welfare caseloads have had difficulty in explaining changes in welfare caseloads during the last decade or so using the simple macroeconomic measure of unemployment. Because welfare recipients will typically get entry- level jobs, employment...

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Urbanization, Gender, and Business Creation in the Informal Sector in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kanbur, Ravi; O'Connell, Stephen - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2014) 141, pp. 1-8

This Economic Premise examines the intersection of four important development themes: urbanization, agglomeration, gender, and informality. Although urbanization has continued at a rapid pace, formalization appears to have stalled. Women comprise an increasing share of the informal sector in...

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Un statut d'emploi pour un enjeu social - La professionnalisation des assistantes maternelles.

Barrère-Maurisson, Marie-Agnès; Lemière, Séverine - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2004

Within the redeployment of Welfare state regime started for several years, some activities have tended to professionalize, thus generating employment and social protection. The situation of the maternal assistants seems symptomatic of this phenomenon. Indeed, the maternal assistants symbolize...

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Earning Differentials between German and French Speakers in Switzerland

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

The paper analyses the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...

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Demographics of Population Ageing in Hungary

Hablicsek, László - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2004

The paper deals with population ageing from demographic aspects. It is a general trend in human development. A new accelerated stage with shrinking labour force has commenced. There is a redefinition of the young, working-age and old-age groups. Trends in schooling, postponement in family...

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Aging, inadequacy, and fiscal constraint : the case of Thailand

Phitawat Poonpolkul; Ponpoje Porapakkarm; Nasi Wada - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 35-67

aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system … model to evaluate two schemes to raise the existing universal basic pension income to the poverty line, namely, uniform … benefits and pension-tested benefits. We find that pension-testing effectively improves the targeting efficiency, and …

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Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

About 7.4 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) work in the United States, making up 5.3 percent of the total U.S. workforce. About 7.1 million of these AAPI workers are Asian Americans; about 300,000 are Pacific Islanders. The AAPI workforce is almost 20 times larger today than...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report reviews the characteristics of the immigrant workforce and analyzes the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of immigrant workers. According to the most recent available data, immigrant workers are now over 15 percent of the workforce and almost 13 percent of unionized...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye-Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

have health insurance and a pension. …

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