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Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...
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This paper combines unique survey and experimental data to examine the determinants of self-selection into a vocational training program. Women residing in selected disadvantaged areas in New Delhi, India were invited to apply for a 6-month long free training program in stitching and tailoring....
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We investigate profit-maximizing versioning plans for an information goods monopolist. The analysis employs data obtained from a web-based field experiment in which potential buyers were offered information goods in varied price-quality configurations. Maximum simulated likelihood (MSL) methods...
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This study assesses the sustainability of reintegration programs for repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Zamboanga City, focusing on the effectiveness of current initiatives and identifying key areas for improvement. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines...
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This article aims to ofer a new framework for social protection approach starting from identifying common ground, or at least a certain degree of convergence of different approaches from the literature on the area of manifestation, objectives and social protection configuration and highlighting...
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This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an overall economic situation reduces risk of poverty in general. However, in case the risk...
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In this paper we analyse the effect of an Italian training program on the re-employment probability of young unemployed workers. The program consists solely of workplace training and is coordinated by employment centre, but it is fully implemented by firms. We develop a discrete duration...
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Traditional theoretical literature which neglects the benefits of stabilization policies (e.g., Lucas 1987 and 2003) ultimately relies on the small impact that macroeconomic volatility has on aggregate income and consumption. In this article, we argue that such an approach is both theoretically...
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Abstract Deutsch Die Signifikanz des Thatcherismus als Ideologie liegt in einer Form autoritären Neoliberalismus, im Sinne einer Untergliederung des Nationalstaates an die Anforderungen der Wirtschaftsfreiheit. Demnach wird jede Regulierung und jeder Rechtsrahmen für das Funktionieren der...
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The paper solves an applied problem: at a specific object of observation, the scientific school of Omsk State University named after P. A. Stolypin "Problems of infrastructural development of the agro-industrial complex of the Siberian region", to consider the prospects of the university in the...
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