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The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment …
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Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...
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poverty but also by considering time poverty within the framework of a new interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty … of 1991/92 and 2001/2 of the Federal Statistics Office provide the data to quantify the multidimensional poverty in all … the IMD poverty regimes. Important result: self-employed with regard to single income poverty, single time poverty and …
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