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Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …

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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?

Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010

casual employment among workers with education above primary. The results also show that education enhances the probability …

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Union Budget 2008-09: A Bag of Tricks to Get the Vote

Kumar, Arun - eSocialSciences - 2008

The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer

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Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment

N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2013

Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of womenâ€™s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].

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Role of Collective Agency in Gender Rights

Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2014

The fact that progress in equal rights for women has come about largely through the efforts of social reform movement in the 19th century and womenâ€™s liberation movement in the 20th century Maharashtra highlights the essential role of collective agency in human progress. Given the...

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More and Better Jobs in South Asia

Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the worldâ€™s working-age (15â€“64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...

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THE COGNITIVE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR HYPOTHESIS: WHAT POSSIBLE EFFECTS FOR THAI LABOUR AND EDUCATION?

Jetin, Bruno - HAL - 2006

subsequent question is: why is it of interest for specialists of education? We don't pretend in this modest contribution to … education in Thailand by engaging in some tentative assumptions (part 2). …

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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes … employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of …

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State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary

Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013

The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and...

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