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Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which...
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Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes by different socioeconomic groups. Methods: In a modeled condition using pooled cross-section data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2002-2017) and Iran 2019...
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young adults' wages in South Africa. The results show that, on average, any experience of physical or emotional abuse during … childhood is associated with a later 12% loss of young adults' wages. In addition, the correlation between physical abuse and … economic consequence (14%) is more significant than the relationship between emotional abuse and wages (8%) of young adults …
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approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap has been diminishing since 2005-to around 12 percent in 2013 … injustice in western Germany increases. One of the reasons why a relatively high level of perceived wage inequality persists in … eastern Germany is the fact that there are still differences between East and West in incomes within occupations. Evidence of …
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Berlin is still behind when it comes to wages. The weak productivity development also indicates an insufficient innovation …
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). Germany is likewise receiving an above-average number of asylum seekers: Assuming a uniform distribution across all EU … countries, Germany receives three times as many in relation to its total population, and twice as many in relation to its … States to agree on a more uniform - and thus more fair - distribution of the refugees. In Germany, 37 percent of asylum …
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The correct definition of the product market and of the geographic market is a prerequisite for assessing market structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating...
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percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance …, which was enacted in Germany in May 2015. …
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Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on … their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good … present study. Germany’s companies still have a long and difficult path ahead of them in order to achieve increased …
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Germany. Particularly in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis that began in 2008, trade with China has been an … important driver of economic growth in Germany as German industry benefited from the increase in Chinese import demand more than …
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