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Improved Targeting of Social Programs: An Application to a State Job Coaching Program for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
McInnes, Melayne; Ozturk, Orgul; McDermott, Suzanne; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In a climate of flat or shrinking budgets, can programs reallocate existing resources to improve efficiency? We illustrate the potential for gains from redirecting resources using data from a state job coaching program that is designed to increase employment among adults with intellectual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108603
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Fixing Europe's youth unemployment and skills mismatch, can public financial support to SMEs be effective? The case of the European Commission and European Investment Bank joint initiatives.
Floreani, Vincent Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
“We risk having a generation that hasn’t held a job. Personal dignity comes from working [...] Young people are in a crisis". Pope Francis - July the 22nd, 2013. Youth unemployment is a critical issue across the European Union with 5.5 million people unemployed among the 18-24 years age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109161
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Standards of living and health status: the socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy gain in sub-Saharan Africa
Keita, Moussa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a panel dataset on 45 sub-Saharan Africa countries (SSA), this study analyzes empirically the socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy gain (considered as an indicator of global health improvement at country level). In order to treat heterogeneity and endogeneity concerns, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109042
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On The Use and Misuse of Input-Output Based Impact Analysis in Evaluation
Grady, Patrick; Muller, R. Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
Estimates of economic activity generated and jobs created that are derived using input-output analysis are often presented in program evaluations and confused with the benefits resultin g from die program. Two such cases are presented as examples. We argue that for two main reasons this type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552780
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Evaluation of development co-operations initiatives: recent evolutions
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper presents a discussion over various evaluation approaches and criteria in the field of Development Co … achievement of objectives and results, by means of participative approaches. Specific problems on the evaluation of development co … evaluation of investments which, at present, seem to be underemployed, especially by the Italian Development Co-operation. …
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The Impact of Education on the Behaviour of Labor Supply in Cameroon: an Analysis using the Nested Multinomial Logit Model
Ndjobo, Nga; Marie, Patrick; Abessolo, Yves André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article renders an analysis of the impact of education on labour supply behaviour, particularly in terms of participation decision and the level of employment and unemployment of the active population in the labour market in Cameroon, through the nested logit model. Using data obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108512
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Analiza HR indeksa u finansijskom sektoru Srbije
Zubović, Jovan; Jeločnik, Marko; Subić, Jonel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper authors analyzed the importance of investments in human resources. This has been done through an empirical study conducted in Serbian financial sector, in which we measure the impact of human resources index level (HR index) on company business results. Research was implemented in...
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Access to Health Care in Andhra Pradesh : Availability of Manpower
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present paper examines the access to health care with reference to availability of manpower in the health care sector in Andhra Pradesh. Also the paper provides the alternative estimations of workforce in health care sector based on the NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113687
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Esperanza de Vida y Potencial de Vida a lo largo del siglo XX en España
Goerlich, Francisco José; Pinilla, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
We review the evolution of mortality in Spain during the XX century. At the same time we comment on the advances in life expectancy, at birth and at different ages, focusing specially on the timing of the changes. Life expectancy at birth is more and more used as an indicator of development, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049435
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Health Econometric: Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market; we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations that involve anthropometric and traditional economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787122