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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
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This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...
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counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …
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Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …
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The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …
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, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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-work poverty was seen as a non-issue in countries with extensive labour protections, especially in countries with minimum wages at … organized labour and proper regulatory correction has turned out to be completely wrong. In-work poverty exists in all rich … economies. But what, exactly, do we mean by in-work poverty? How is it related to labour market trends and also to policies? And …
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successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by …
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Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …
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