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This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known as 'maquiladoras') on various measures of standard of living in Mexico, namely literacy rate, school attendance rates, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality,...
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La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...
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participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …. Since 1973, with petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed down in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland …
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participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …. Since 1973, with petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed down in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …
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Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …
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(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …
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, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …
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This paper shows the differences between how benefits are estimated and how they are distributed, calls attention to the policy variables that are crucial in explaining certain distributional outcomes, explores the importance of looking at the demand for characteristics when trying to benefit...
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It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …
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