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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …
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of the United States, Canada and Germany to data risks posed by popular apps such as FaceApp, Facebook, Strava, TikTok …
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Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …
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updated our policy comparison with Sweden for the most recent data, with similar conclusions.: lower Swedish lockdown …
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, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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decades in a comparative perspective. The countries included in the study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and … greatest in Sweden and the United Kingdom, followed by Germany, Canada and the United States. … vulnerable to cutbacks, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Although the curtailments in means-tested provisions in recent years …
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This paper examines gender differentials in the resources of households and individuals across seven welfare states. In its first part, it asks whether female-headed households can secure a living income without recourse to either the state or the income of a male partner. It then steps inside...
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