Search Results - subject:"Poverty aversion"

Assessing deprivation with ordinal variables : depth sensitivity and poverty aversion

Seth, Suman; Yalonetzky, Gastón - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative - 2018

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Serving the Many or Serving the Most Needy?

Starke, Christoph - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2010

entrepreneur’s trade off between both effects is governed by her level of poverty aversion, i.e., her preference intensity for the … relatively high poverty aversion tend to increase the project volume, while those with relatively low poverty aversion do the …

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

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2006

This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor 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...

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