This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

. First, we use a model with endogenous land use to estimate the effect of the biofuel policy on the world price of selected … techniques that generate standard errors on these price predictions. The effect of these price increases on household welfare is … then estimated using data on consumption and wage incomes. We estimate pass-through elasticities from time-series data then …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …

the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …

employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …