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inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …
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Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …
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mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …
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family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …
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Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822543
inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822808
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand.
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income Survey. The elderly werenot isolated as pensions were cut,...
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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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