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This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …
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Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing … caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This qualitative …
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holiday per year, which should lead to adjustments in employment. For employees I use complementary log-log regression to … account for right-censoring of employment spells. I find no increase in the hazard to exit employment within a year after …. I also evaluate the long run trend in aggregate employment, using the predicted treatment probabilities in a difference …
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We study an economy where agents are heterogeneous in terms of observable wealth and unobservable talent. Adverse selection forces creditors to ask for collateral. We study the two-way interaction between rationing in the credit market and the wages offered in the labour market. Both pooling and...
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This paper proposes a model of wealth distribution dynamics with a capital market imperfection and a production function where public capital is complementary to private capital. A unique invariant steady-state distribution is derived, with three social classes: subsistence workers, 'government...
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This paper divides the population into two groups: the "inheritors" or "rentiers" (whose wealth is smaller than the capitalized value of their inherited wealth, i.e. who consumed more than their labor income during their lifetime); and the "savers" or "self-made men" (whose wealth is larger than...
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projects (i.e. use less capital); although there is no poverty trap, the initial distribution may have long-run effects: there …
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Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I...
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