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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....
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Targeting of social transfers : are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
Whether social transfers should be targeted or universal is an unsolved debate that is particularly relevant for the implementation of social protection schemes in developing countries. While the limited availability of public resources encourages targeting, the difficulty in identifying the...
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The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea
Chae, Seyoung - 2017
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948688
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The effects of lifetime work experience on incidence and severity of elderly poverty in Korea
Chae, Seyoung; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709639
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The effects of labor market characteristics on women’s poverty in Korea
Park, Yhesaem; Heshmati, Almas - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/110, pp. 1-16
Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes the characteristics of poverty among the working...
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Poverty and Development of Human Capital in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been … confirmed. More importantly, higher NREGS wages are likely to undermine self-selection of the poor in it. So, in order to …
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Zeit und Geld im Lebensverlauf - Empirische Evidenz und sozialpolitischer Handlungsbedarf aus der Geschlechterperspektive (Time and Money in the Life Course - Empirical Evidence an...
Klammer, Ute - In: Intervention. Zeitschrift fuer Ökonomie / Journal of … 04 (2007) 1, pp. 145-174
The article analyses the distribution of time and money from a life-course perspective, focussing on differences between women and men. Using different available data-sources, characteristic patterns of female and male life courses and their changes over time are being discussed. The article...
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The unpaid care workpaid work connection
Antonopoulos, Rania (contributor) - 2008
In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this paper argues, the many intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is well documented that gender-based wage differentials and occupational segregation continue to characterize the...
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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
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