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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty: National survey of children's health

Assari, Shervin - In: Economies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14

According to the Blacks' Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education,...

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The human development index as isoelastic GDP: Evidence from China and Pakistan

Bechtel, Gordon - In: Economies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-9

Gross domestic product (GDP) is shown to possess three new desiderata. First, GDP is almost perfectly correlated over time with the first principal component of its three classical indicators. Second, this principal component is in a class of weighted indexes ancillary to GDP. Each ancillary...

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Public health expenditures and health outcomes: New evidence from Ghana

Boachie, Micheal Kofi; Ramu, K.; Põlajeva, Tatjana - In: Economies 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-25

The effect of government spending on population's health has received attention over the past decades. This study re-examines the link between government health expenditures and health outcomes to establish whether government intervention in the health sector improves outcomes. The study uses...

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A qualitative study of the views of health and social care decision-makers on the role of wellbeing in resource allocation decisions in the UK

Peasgood, Tessa; Carlton, Jill; Brazier, John - In: Economies 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13

There has been growing international interest in the role that wellbeing measures could play within policy making in health and social care. This project explored the opinions of a sample of UK decision-makers on the relevance of wellbeing and subjective wellbeing (by which we mean good and bad...

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Assessment of economic security of households based on a scenario analysis

Kośny, Marek; Piotrowska, Maria - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-20

The article proposes a method to assess the level of economic security, based on the analysis of scenarios of future events. These scenarios cover realistically possible combinations of future events, both positive and negative, allowing for an assessment of their financial implications. The...

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Evaluation of a population's migration potential as an important component of migration policy

Ryndzak, Olha - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-14

Development of preventive migration state policy requires investigation of not only real but also prospective migration. This article provides the author's methodological approach to the study of a population's migration potential. The migration desires index (MDI), as one of the most important...

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Impact of changes to procedures on the evaluation of the effectiveness of forms of professional activation in poland

Bieszk-Stolorz, Beata; Dmytrów, Krzysztof - In: Economies 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-18

Active labour market policy is connected with the necessity to account for the funds allocated for it. The conducted analysis forms a part of research on the evaluation of the effects of changes introduced by legal regulations. The aim of this research is to assess the impact of changes to the...

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Do technological innovations affect unemployment? Some empirical evidence from European countries

Matuzeviciute, Kristina; Butkus, Mindaugas; Karaliute, … - In: Economies 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

unemployment, considering the former as a key driver of long-term productivity and economic growth. Using panel data from 25 … European countries for the period of 2000-2012, we aim to examine whether technological innovations affect unemployment. We … unemployment controls, in our model, which were estimated using System Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM). Finding no significant …

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Effects of Industry 4.0 on the labor markets of Iran and Japan

Nafchi, Majid Ziaei; Mohelská, Hana - In: Economies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-13

countries in terms of competitive advantage, but causes unemployment because of high levels of automation. The aim of this paper …

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Unemployment and growth in the tourism sector in Mexico: Revisiting the growth-rate version of Okun's law

Sanchez Lopez, Fernando - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-17

growth and unemployment in Mexico during the period 2000Q2-2018Q4. The results show that tourism growth is a palliative for … unemployment, whereas unemployment reduces the growth of the tourism sector. The results also show that the relationship between …

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