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Child Labor at District Level: A Case Study of Rawalpindi
Kulsoom, Rafia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Child labor is one of the problems that occur as a result of responses to the economic problems faced by vulnerable children. Keeping in view the theoretical background of existence of child labor across the world, the study analyzes the incidence of child labor from Rawalpindi city of Pakistan....
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Health Insurance for the Poor in Informal Sector.
Sarkar, Siddhartha; Sarkar, Siddhartha - In: Indus Journal of Management & Social Science (IJMSS) 1 (2007) 2, pp. 129-146
The realization that mere existence of health care facilities does not necessarily mean that they are readily accessible to the poorest section in the informal economy, tend to the evolution of a unique health insurance scheme, with contribution according to individual capacity. This paper...
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Relentless Incrementalism: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Canadian Income Security Policy
Battle, Ken - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
One of the most (if not the most) highly charged public debates in this country over the past decade has been about the role of economic imperatives in dismantling the foundations of the welfare state set out in the universalist model adopted in the post-war years. Ken Battle in his chapter is...
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The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers: The Kerala experience
Kannan, K.P. - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2002
This paper examines the evolution of the institution of `Welfare Funds' for informal sector workers in the State of Kerala in India. The Kerala experience, which is now thirty years old, reflects what the workers in the informal sector could achieve in countries like India given the contemporary...
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
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Regole pensionistiche e prolungamento dell'attività: analisi del TIR e effetti del cumulo lavoro-pensione
Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2004
Le regole del regime pensionistico contributivo incentivano il proseguimento del lavoro già in corso e, alla pari di quanto avviene per le scelte di lavoro-pensionamento, trattano i casi di cumulo di pensione e reddito da lavoro in maniera finanziariamente e attuarialmente neutra. E' possibile,...
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I trend della spesa sanitaria e le ragioni del finanziamento multipillar con componente ad accumulazione reale
Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2010
Nei prossimi decenni tutti i Paesi ad economia e welfare sviluppati dovranno fronteggiare spese sanitarie fortemente crescenti, con trend potenziali che nel lungo periodo, al 2050-2060, potrebbero raddoppiare o più che raddoppiare l'incidenza della componente pubblica sul Pil. Così emerge...
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been … confirmed. More importantly, higher NREGS wages are likely to undermine self-selection of the poor in it. So, in order to …
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Zeit und Geld im Lebensverlauf - Empirische Evidenz und sozialpolitischer Handlungsbedarf aus der Geschlechterperspektive (Time and Money in the Life Course - Empirical Evidence an...
Klammer, Ute - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 4 (2007) 1, pp. 145-174
The article analyses the distribution of time and money from a life-course perspective, focussing on differences between women and men. Using different available data-sources, characteristic patterns of female and male life courses and their changes over time are being discussed. The article...
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An Exploration of the Determinants of the Subjective Well-being of Americans During the Great Recession
Sánchez, Aida Caldera; Tassot, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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