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47188: Is the window of opportunity closing for Brazilian youth? Labor market trends and business cycle effects

Michael Justesen

47164: Structural educational reform: evidence from a teacher's displacement program in Armenia

Arvo Kuddo

47101: Investing for the old age: pensions, children and savings

Vincenzo Galasso, Roberta Gatti and Paola Profeta

47070: Non-performance of the severance pay program in Slovenia

Milan Vodopivec, Lilijana Madzar and Primoz Dolenc

46851: Can the introduction of a minimum wage in FYR Macedonia decrease the gender wage gap?

Diego Angel-Urdinola

46687: Can conditional cash transfer programs play a greater role in reducing child undernutrition?

Lucy Bassett

46333: Community-based risk management arrangements: an overview and implications for social fund programs

Ruchira Bhattamishra and Christopher Barrett

46306: Labor regulations in developing countries: a review of the evidence and directions for future research

Tito Boeri, Brooke Helppie and Mario Macis

46189: The incentives to invest in job training: do strict labor codes influence this decision?

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

46188: The portability of pension rights: general principals and the Caribbean case

Alvaro Forteza

46175: Pension systems and reform conceptual framework

Robert Holzmann, Richard Hinz Paul and Mark Dorfman

45311: Management information systems in social safety net programs: a look at accountability and control mechanisms

Cesar Baldeon and Maria D. Arribas-Banos

45179: Social funds as an instrument of social protection: an analysis of lending trends - FY2000-2007

Samantha de Silva and June-wei Sum

45178: Disability and development in the World Bank: FY2000-2007

Jeanine Braithwaite, Richard Carroll, Daniel Mont and Karen Peffley

45051: Mandated benefits, employment, and inequality in a dual economy

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

44947: The return to firm investments in human capital

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

44927: Population aging and the labor market: the case of Sri Lanka

Milan Vodopivec and Nisha Arunatilake

44857: Levels and patterns of safety net spending in developing and transition countries

Christine Weigand and Margaret Grosh

44856: Pensions in World Bank lending and analytical work: FY2002-2007

Richard Hinz, Melike Egilmezler and Sergiy Biletsky

44780: Risk and vulnerability analysis in World Bank analytic work: FY2000-FY2007

Valerie Kozel, Pierre Fallavier and Reena Badiani

44779: China: improving unemployment insurance

Milan Vodopivec and Minna Hahn Tong

44730: Social safety nets in World Bank lending and analytical work: FY2002 - 2007

Annamaria Milazzo and Margaret Grosh

44671: Beyond disability-adjusted life years (DALYs): developing indicators to assess the impact of public health interventions on the lives of people with disabilities

Daniel Mont and Mitchell Loeb

44492: Labor regulation and employment in India's retail stores

Mohammad Amin

43675: Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

42754: Disability and poverty: a survey of World Bank poverty assessments and implications

Jeanine Braithwaite and Daniel Mont

42752: Poverty traps and social protection

Christopher Barrett, Michael Carter and Munenobu Ikegami

42471: Live longer, work longer: making it happen in the labor market

Milan Vodopivec and Primoz Dolenc

42470: Disability in Kazakhstan: an evaluation of official data

Ai-Gul S. Seitenova and Charles M. Becker

42268: Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation: the Chilean model

Estelle James, Augusto Iglesias and Alejandra Cox Edwards

41759: The life-course perspective and social policies: an issues note

Lans Bovenberg

41541: Informality and social protection: preliminary results from pilot surveys in Bulgaria and Colombia

Franco Peracchi, Valeria Perotti and Stefano Scarpetta

41529: Social safety nets and targeted social assistance: lessons from the European experience

Chris de Neubourg, Julie Castonguay and Keetie Roelen

41439: How labor market policies can combine workers'protection with job creation: a partial review of some key issues and policy options

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

41412: A review of interventions to support young workers: findings of the youth employment inventory

Gordon Betcherman, Martin Godfrey, Susana Puerto, Friederike Rother and Antoneta Stavreska

39174: Aging and demographic change in European societies: main trends and alternative policy options

Rainer Muenz

38578: The social assimilation of immigrants

Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Venturini

37432: Comparing Individual Retirement Accounts in Asia: Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and PRC (China)

Yasue Pai

37431: Pension system reforms

Anita M. Schwartz

36237: Social pensions Part I: their role in the overall pension system

Robert Palacios and Oleksiy Sluchynsky

36175: Japan's pension reform

Junichi Sakamoto

35625: Guidance for the conduct of a social protection expenditure, performance and finance review

Karin Hitzmann, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Robert Holzmann

35378: Complementing natural disasters management: the role of social protection

Renos Vakis

35148: Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries: results from eleven household surveys

Deon Filmer

34844: Community-based social services: practical advice based upon lessons from outside the World Bank

Dinah Mcleod

33986: The new pensions in Kazakhstan: challenges in making the transition

Richard P. Hinz, Asta Zviniene and Anna-Marie Vilamovska

33985: Household's vulnerability to shocks in Zambia

Carlo Del Ninno and Alessandra Marini

33407: Managing public pension reserves Part II: lessons from five recent OECD initiatives

Robert Palacios

32762: Implementing means-tested welfare systems in the United States

Kathy Lindert

32759: Targeting social spending to the poor with proxy - means testing: Colombia's SISBEN system

Tarsicio Castaneda