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model with estimates of how locations affect adult earnings of children to understand how a voucher policy that restricts … neighborhoods in which voucher-recipients may live affects both the location decisions of households and the adult earnings of … aggregate adult earnings of children of households offered these vouchers. …
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We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13.75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates...
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Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...
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chances of taking up employment for women only. …
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Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …-growth period has not been pro-poor. While female employment levels have actually declined since the 1980s, growth has not expanded … remunerative employment opportunities sufficiently, even for poor males. This suggests that better-paid jobs for men-by lowering …
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organizations and the provision of employment opportunities. Research limitations/implications - This study is purely qualitative …
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In the last 15 years before the COVID-19 crisis, Germany has experienced a strong and continuous increase in employment … relatively stable. This paper analyzes the impact of employment changes on disposable income inequality between 2004 and 2015 and … gives an answer to the question why inequality remained constant despite the dramatic increase in employment. It is the …
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Participation, my results show positive earnings and employment effects for unmarried women in the 12 months following their first … $67 billion to more than 27 million families for the tax year 2016, an average of $2,455. By subsidizing the earnings of … insignificant for married women, with the exception of negative (and sometimes significant) effects on earnings for low-ed married …
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In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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employment rate since workers also apply for more disability and unemployment benefits. Moreover, most of them simply retire … delay in pension claims, increase in employment, and inactivity. All in all, this paper shows that raising the NRA could …
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