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Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey

Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition,...

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A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race. Pay the Gap

Drydakis, Nick; Paraskevopoulou, Anna; Bozani, Vasiliki - 2022

The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the research question the study collects data from four simultaneous field experiments in England. The study...

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A parsimonious model of optimal social distancing and vaccination during an outbreak

Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Marsiglio, Simone; Sodini, … - 2023

Motivated by the complicated control issues of COVID-19, this article aims at investigating the optimal control of an epidemic of a Susceptible-Infective-Removed-Susceptible (SIRS) infection, where social distancing is the only control action in a first stage, whereas a combination of social...

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Men's premarital migration and marriage payments: Evidence from Indonesia

Champeaux, Hugues; Gautrain, Elsa; Marazyan, Karine - 2024

Bride price customs are widespread in many developing countries. While the economic literature has widely investigated the implications of such transfers on women's welfare, little is known about their consequences on men's premarital behavior. In this paper, we exploit a quasi-natural...

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Fiscal policy instruments for inclusive labour markets: A review

Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; Reljic, Jelena - 2024

This study provides a critical assessment of various fiscal policy instruments - including direct public job creation, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting the most vulnerable groups in the labour market....

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Turkish University Students’ Self-Perceptions of Aging: An Analysis Over Socio-Economic Dimensions

Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019

University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile …

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Inclusive recruitment? Hiring discrimination against older workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment …

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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development

Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model … and high development regimes. It provides alternative reasons (history driven or expectations driven) why some countries … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …

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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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