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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics, with an Application to Poverty Dynamics among American Women

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, we illustrate this framework with an application to poverty … rates among young women in the United States. We use this model to analyse differences in poverty experiences, particularly …

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Poverty Dynamics Among Young Americans

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most … of these experienced one or two years. A significant group, by age 34, had suffered five or more years of poverty out of …

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The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more than wage dispersion, due to a rise in the...

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Herding cats? Management and university performance

McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and that departments in older, research-intensive...

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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs

Pavoni, Nicola; Setty, Ofer; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Some existing welfare programs (“work-first”) require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others (“job search-first”) emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs...

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Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs

Pavoni, Nicola; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

A Welfare-to-Work (WTW) program is a mix of government expenditures on various labor market policies targeted to the unemployed (e.g., unemployment insurance, job search monitoring, social assistance, wage subsidies). This paper provides a dynamic principal-agent framework suitable for analyzing...

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Competition, Equity and Quality in HealthCare

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an effective way to increase the quality signal and...

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