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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China

Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province’s competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …

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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We...

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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "…[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...

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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...

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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik; Ponce, Juan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...

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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...

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