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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … results support Caldwell’s hypothesis and are generally supportive of hypothesis that a fertility transition is occurring. HIV …

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Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The respondent’s perception of how much cash is needed varies...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

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Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China

Gustafsson, Bjorn; Quheng, Deng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income insecurity. The rapid expansion of the system of social assistance, Di Bao, can be understood from this perspective. Using a survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002,...

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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct...

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Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the long-term unemployed) and are provided only for a...

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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...

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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s

Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique opportunity to explore the determinants of child...

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