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This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …
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his paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his...
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It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
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, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration. …
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significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …
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Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...
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-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …
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This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in...
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