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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866

Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a …

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Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

on consumption, in comparison to shocksto the income stream.[...] …

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

responsible for elderlypeople’s living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private andpublic income transfers to elderly … to the income of the elderly households,particularly poorer households, while public transfers do not make anysignificant …

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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics,with an Application to Poverty Dynamics amongAmerican Women

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …

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Welfare Reform and New York City’s Low-Income Population

Chernick, Howard; Reimers, Cordelia - Graduate School and University Center <New York, NY> - 2001

[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …

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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market and the Wage Structure

Borjas, George J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1995

). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages during the 1980s. However, workersat the 33rd percentile experienced a …

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What Are the Causes of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States?

Bound, John; Johnson, George - University of Michigan <Ann Arbor, Mich.> / Department … - 1995

[...]This paper is an interim report on continuingwork that we began in 1988. Our earlier research on thecauses of wage structure changes in the 1980s (Bound andJohnson 1992) showed that part of explanation A (theslowdown in the growth rate of that fraction of the workforce with high levels of...

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U.S. Wage Trends in the 1980s: The Role of International Factors

Lawrence, Robert Z. - John F. Kennedy School of Government <Cambridge, Mass.> - 1995

United States wage performance has been disquieting.Between 1979 and 1993, realhourly compensation rose by just 5.5 percent.This poor average wage performancehas been associated with a dramatic increase in the dispersionof earnings: both in the returns to general characteristicssuch as...

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The Future Path and Consequences of the U.S. Earnings/Education Gap

Levy, Frank - Massachusetts Institute of Technology <Cambridge, … - 1995

[...]I will describe the dilemma by first reviewing thecontext of stagnant wages and living standards. I will thensummarize some of the trends—political and demographic—that economic angst has accelerated. Finally, I will examine the future path of the education/earningsgap in the short run,...

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