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, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …
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impact that healthcare costs have on household living standards in a high-income country with a long established universal …Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and … imparting costs associated with receiving medical treatment. Universal health care is a means of protecting against the …
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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …
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We show the extent to which public insurance and self‐insurance mitigate the cost of health shocks that limit the ability to work. We use consumption data from the UK to estimate insurance provided by government disability programmes. Individuals with a work‐limiting health condition, in...
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