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The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …
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The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …
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poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …
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People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty … inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed … political participation only as a result of losing their job, nor do those affected by poverty do so due to loss of income …
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor … that poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor governance were significant causes of Niger Delta militancy …
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more generous welfare system contributed to reducing poverty. Employment security, however, appears to be linked to the … presence of higher levels of income inequality after the crisis. …
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The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation...
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social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …
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country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …
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, which brings into question the effect they may have on inequality between and within different groups of workers. …
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