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Workers unite! : the international 150 years later
Musto, Marcello (ed.) - 2014
"Major political and economic shifts have marked the turn into the 21st century: the collapse of the Soviet bloc; the rise to prominence of ecological issues; social changes generated by globalization; and, most recently, one of the worst world financial crises ever. These developments compel us...
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Learning in the workplace: evidence on the role of behavioural job crafting on fostering self-perceived employability
Sartori, Riccardo; Tommasi, Francesco; Ceschi, Andrea; … - In: European Journal of Training and Development 47 (2023) 10, pp. 133-146
intervention, the authors asked participants of the workshop to complete four quantitative diaries on a weekly basis, i.e. one per … week, one before the intervention and three after the intervention. The diaries comprised measures of job crafting … present study, no control group was used with which the results of our intervention could be compared. However, this does not …
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Longitudinal changes and determinants of parental willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity
Lauer, Romy; Traub, Meike; Hansen, Sylvia; Kilian, Reinhold - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 15, pp. 1-10
Background: Willingness to Pay (WTP) is an alternative to measure quality-adjusted life years for cost-effectiveness analyses. The aim was to evaluate longitudinal changes and determinants of parental WTP for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from...
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Evidence-based practices that deal with work-family conflict and enrichment : systematic literature review
Vadvilavičius, Tadas; Stelmokienė, Aurelija - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 2, pp. 820-826
surprising that organizations quite often choose training/workshop as the most suitable intervention. Similarly, only one … scientific article presented the intervention that used real organizational change to reduce work-family conflict. Additionally …, only one intervention was oriented towards the positive side of work family interaction - increase in work …
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Iranian Saudi rivalry over the regional role ... Syria as a model
Aldesouky, Aboubakr Fathy Awaad - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 9 (2024) 6, pp. 494-512
Purpose - This study aims to highlight the dimensions of the rivalry over the regional role between two regional powers in the Middle East, and the impact of local, regional and international pressures of the Syrian crisis on the role performance of the competing forces....
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Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund
Chase, Robert S. - In: The World Bank Economic Review 16 (2002) 2, pp. 219-239
The Armenian Social Investment Fund supports communities' efforts to improve local infrastructure during Armenia's economic transition away from central planning, financing community-designed and -implemented projects to rehabilitate primary schools, water systems, and other infrastructure. This...
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The Impact and Targeting of Social Infrastructure Investments : Lessons from the Nicaraguan Social Fund
Pradhan, Menno; Rawlings, Laura B. - In: The World Bank Economic Review 16 (2002) 2, pp. 275-295
The benefit incidence and impact of projects financed by the Nicaraguan Emergency Social Investment Fund are investigated using a sample of beneficiaries, a national household survey, and two distinct comparison groups. The first group is constructed on the basis of geographic proximity between...
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Did the Health Card Program Ensure Access to Medical Care for the Poor during Indonesia’s Economic Crisis?
Pradhan, Menno; Saadah, Fadia; Sparrow, Robert - In: The World Bank Economic Review 21 (2007) 1, pp. 125-149
The Indonesian Social Safety Net health card program was implemented in response to the economic crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997, to preserve access to health care services for the poor. Health cards were allocated to poor households, entitling them to subsidized care from public health care...
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Micro-Level Estimation of Child Undernutrition Indicators in Cambodia
Fujii, Tomoki - In: The World Bank Economic Review 24 (2010) 3, pp. 520-553
One major limitation to addressing child undernutrition is a lack of the information required to target resources. This article extends the small-area estimation technique of Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw (2002, 2003) to jointly estimate multiple equations while allowing for individual-specific...
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