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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Popova, Olga - 2020

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference-in-differences estimation. Our findings suggest that while transitioning...

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Sometimes, winners lose : economic disparity and indigenization in Kazakhstan

Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014

Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...

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Inequality-adjusted gender wage differentials in Germany

Skoglund, Ekaterina; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2013

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequalityadjusted gender pay gap measures are...

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The impact of flat taxes on income and wealth inequality

Brzezinski, Michal; Akarsu, Mahmut Zeki - 2025

Flat tax systems have gained traction in countries that transitioned from socialism, with more than 20 nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia adopting such systems since the mid-1990s. These reforms aimed to streamline tax processes, enhance compliance, and boost economic growth. While...

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