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Manufacturing industry expansion is a central part of Ethiopia's growth and transformation agenda due to its potential for accelerated economic development and large-scale job creation, in particular for women. However, the industry is experiencing extremely high labour turnover rates, which is...
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Young Lives is an international longitudinal study on childhood poverty and policy in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh …
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The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …
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Low labour market participation, together with the high effective tax wedge at low wage levels, create a fertile ground for the introduction of the in-work benefits (IWB) in Serbia. Our paper provides an ex-ante evaluation of the two IWB schemes, directed at stimulating the labour supply and...
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the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … of financial need among the elderly - a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty - also … of these findings for anti-poverty and redistributive policies. …
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the labor market and to reduce poverty among households that include wage earners. The combination of data from … to evaluate the effect of various policy scenarios on employment and poverty. The institution of an EITC system in the … not within the weaker segments of the population and that the program's effectiveness in reducing poverty was relatively …
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the labor market and to reduce poverty among households that include wage earners. The combination of data from … to evaluate the effect of various policy scenarios on employment and poverty. The institution of an EITC system in the … not within the weaker segments of the population and that the program's effectiveness in reducing poverty was relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779736
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811812