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While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
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evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …
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find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …
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Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …
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persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
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Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …
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Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines.Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in theliterature, including … greater poverty among households with children and with less education.We also identify specific features of poverty in …
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