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Focused Targeting against Poverty Evidence from Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Bibi, Sami - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2006
This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable … improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990409
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What is "Pro-Poor"?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696332
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Work, Family or State? From wage inequalities to standard of living inequalities and inwork poverty in a European cross-country perspective
Allegre, Guillaume - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2012
Our aim is to explore how wages inequalities translate into standard of living inequalities in different European countries. Wage inequalities are measured at the individual level. They can be increased or reduced by two institutions: the household and the tax-benefit system. Standards of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764807
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Work, family or state ? from wage inequalitie ans in-work poverty in a european cross-country perspective
Allègre, Guillaume - Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Sciences … - 2012
Our aim is to explore how wages inequalities translate into standard of living inequalities in different European countries. Wage inequalities are measured at the individual level. They can be increased or reduced by two institutions: the household and the tax-benefit system. Standards of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541192
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Robust Poverty Comparisons and Marginal Policy Reform Orderings Under Income Variability
MAKDISSI, Paul; WODON, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2003
A method is proposed to provide robust poverty comparisons and robust evaluations of marginal policy reforms under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467355
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Work, Family or State? From wage inequalities to standard of living inequalities and inwork poverty in a European cross-country perspective
Allegre, Guillaume - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2012
Our aim is to explore how wages inequalities translate into standard of living inequalities in different European countries. Wage inequalities are measured at the individual level. They can be increased or reduced by two institutions: the household and the tax-benefit system. Standards of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756969
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Die neuen Indizes des Bericht über die menschliche Entwicklung 2010
Kockläuner, Gerhard - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 7 (2013) 3, pp. 121-133
Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The paper introduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994197
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IMPACT of Cash Transfer Programs on School Attendance and Child Poverty: An Ex-ante Simulation for Sri Lanka
KUMARA, Ajantha Sisira; PFAU, Wade Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among … reduce child poverty and encourage school attendance. If means-testing is not feasible, then programs targeting the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004055
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Poverty in Germany – Statistical Inference and Decomposition
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 2, pp. 178-209
-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk.Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021730
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Effects of Argentina's Social Security Reform on Labor Markets and Poverty
Alzua, Maria Laura; Ruffo, Hernan - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2011
effect between 1994 and 2008- over wages, employment and poverty. While the macroeconomic effects of a change in the pension … analysis. We use a CGE model to evaluate the effects of the reform on labor market and poverty. Our result indicate that if … private pension funds are allocated to physical investment, labor demand and wages increase and poverty goes down. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144745