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century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
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households without children under 18 years old, whereas three factors were identified for households with children. The … household. Household income had the largest influence on all the dimensions, which indicates a strong relationship between … income and food insecurity. …
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Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in …
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data to assess the effects of the policy change on non-EU labour migrants' labour-market outcomes, as measured by income …-migration reform had a negative effect on the migrants' annual income. However, this effect became marginal after controlling for … occupational level. We conclude that changes in their occupational composition were the main drivers of the income drop for non …
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The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …
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grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 … emigration from low to middle-income countries declines as income increases, education improves or population growth slows down … increases from countries at intermediate levels of development. Hence, policies supporting development in low-income countries …
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the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are 35 …% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap …
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outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
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remittance inflow projections by Asian Development Bank (ADB), this study first estimated the COVID-19 pandemic on income and … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction … in household's per-capita income, and results in additional 1.7 million poor people. The cash transfers would be pro …
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It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …
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