Search Results - subject:"basic needs"

The living wage : reducing inequality in the UK?

Morelli, Carlo J.; Seaman, Paul T. - 2010

The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which active regulation of labour markets may be necessary to attain desired outcomes. Market failure is suggested to result in lower wages and remuneration for low skilled workers than might otherwise be...

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The determinants of subsistence income in a Malthusian world

Sharp, Paul; Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2010 - Revised Version March 2010

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The desirability of workfare as a welfare ordeal : revisited

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2010

In this paper we challenge the conventional wisdom that using workfare as a supplementary screening device to means-testing is socially undesirable when the overnment objective is welfarist, namely, to ensure that all members of society will attain some minimal level of utility. Our argument...

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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ

Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - 2010

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...

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The Collision of Tax and Welfare Politics : the Political History of the Earned Income Tax Credit, 1969-1999

Ventry, Dennis J. - 2010

This article uses the political history and pre-history of the EITC to describe how the politics of welfare reform influence tax policies that function as social policy. It suggests that the economic tradeoffs inherent in the formulation of tax-transfer programs are also political tradeoffs. It...

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Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Simler, Kenneth - 2010

satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty …

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Understanding human need : social issues, policy and practice

Dean, Hartley - 2010

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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in six Latin American countries

Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe … - 2009

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992–2006. Six dimensions are analysed: income, child attendance at school, education of the household head, sanitation,...

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Modelling the Distribution of Multidimensional Poverty Scores: Evidence from Mexico

Berenger, Valérie; Villarreal, Cuauhtémoc Calderón; … - In: Estudios Económicos 24 (2009) 1, pp. 3-34

The main purpose of this paper is to explore a new methodology already developed by Berenger and Celestini (2006). This theoretical method based on fuzzy sets approach makes it possible to define a multidimensional poverty score lying, as for income, between 0 and infinity in order to...

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Human Capital vs. Physical Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Human Development Strategies

Siddiqui, Rizwana - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009

to identify the importance of basic needs in human development strategies in Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world (ROW …). The results show that income per capita has priority over basic needs expenditure in development strategies of all regions … despite being quantitatively different. However, the importance of basic needs expenditure cannot be denied in terms of …

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