Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees

Spillover Fluctuations between Inflation and Un(employment) Concerning Different Macroeconomic Sectors in Iran

The main objective of this study is to analyze spillover fluctuations between inflation fluctuation and (un)employment fluctuation in relation to agriculture, industry and services sectors of Iran. In line with this, PANEL in Mean-MGARCH model has been used concerning Iran’s agriculture, industry and services sectors over the period of time from spring 2002 to winter 2016. The results show that...

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers’ lives: employment, health, and...

A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns* This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labour markets are imperfect and when the credibility of government policy announcements could be in doubt. The basic feature of an EGS is that any individual who satisfies a set of specified criteria is guaranteed public employment at a given wa...

Education in a Smart City: Future Impacts on Education?

Are There Different Spillover Effects From Cash Transfers to Men and Women? Impacts on Investments in Education in Post-War Uganda

This paper looks at the spillover effects of a grant, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed youth, while working in practice similar to an unconditional cash transfer. It kept a gender balance by mandating that groups contained at least a third of wo...