This paper looks at the state of financial and social inclusion and financial sector development in EU Member States. More precisely, one of the objectives is to find out whether financial and social exclusion can coexist in the same countries, taking into account the development of the...

Mit dem "Teilhabechancengesetz" wurden zum Jahresbeginn 2019 die Instrumente "Eingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen" (§16e SGB II) sowie "Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt" (§16i SGB II) eingeführt. Beide Instrumente richten sich gleichermaßen an langzeitarbeitslose Leistungsberechtigte, die auch...

Um fundierte Aussagen zum Stand der Integration treffen zu können, muss zunächst geklärt werden, was diese konkret beinhalten sollte. Aus der Definition des Dudens einer "Verbindung einer Vielheit von einzelnen Personen oder Gruppen zu einer gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Einheit" (Duden,...

Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...

The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A conspicuous lacuna in the literature is a lack of...

This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...

We examine how work norms affect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up rates in response to worsening economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person's home country, which we argue are exogenous to labor market...

Das systematische Wissen über die Lebenslagen von geflüchteten Frauen, Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland ist beschränkt. Das Forschungsprojekt "Geflüchtete Frauen und Familien" (GeFF) untersucht deswegen systematisch die besonderen Umstände der Flucht und der Integration von...

The paper develops an SROI (Social Return on Investment) analysis of four microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in Spain, Italy and Bosnia-Herzegovina. This work is part of the MeMI Project ("Measuring Microfinance Impact in the EU. Policy recommendations for Financial and Social Inclusion")...

Obschon die Phase des stärksten Zuzugs von Geflüchteten in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik nunmehr fünf Jahre zurückliegt, kommen auch in den letzten Jahren noch mehr Asylsuchende nach Deutschland als zu Beginn der 2010er-Jahre. So stellten im Jahr 2019 rund 166.000 Personen Asylanträge,...

Die vom Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) und den Universitäten Neuchâtel und Freiburg herausgegebene neue Reihe Panorama Gesellschaft Schweiz ist eine gemeinsame Initiative der öffentlichen Statistik und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung an den Hochschulen. Sie bezweckt, wichtige...

Several EU Member States have traditionally been a destination for migrants, whether they come from within the EU or elsewhere in the world. The flow of migrants has led to a range of new skills and talents being introduced into local labour markets while also increasing cultural diversity. The...

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...

Este documento, de carácter exploratorio, busca contribuir a la construcción de un marco analítico que permita profundizar en el estudio de las relaciones entrecruzadas entre migración y condición étnico-racial —que suelen redundar en prácticas racistas y xenofóbicas— y sus...

La cuarta revolución tecnológica está en curso desde hace un tiempo. Más allá de Internet y el uso generalizado de las tecnologías de información, se avanza en nuevas tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial, la impresión en tres dimensiones, la robótica y la automatización de...

En este informe se realiza una revisión sucinta de las respuestas al COVID-19 en la región y se analiza su alcance en relación con la protección de los derechos humanos de las personas con discapacidad. El objetivo es obtener información de utilidad para los Estados e instituciones...

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

The aim of the concept of inclusive growth is to derive political recommendations on the basis of selected indicators so that a maximum number of socio-economic groups may benefit from the economic progress of a country. On the one hand, this initiative continues the long-running debate on...

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

Racism in various forms exists worldwide. In Australia, racism is inextricably linked to the history of Australian immigrants and early setters. Although the Australian education system has adopted inclusive education, evidence shows several incidents of racial exclusion. With the public...