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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?

Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and …

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Wages & income mobility in Indian labour market: the post-reform scenario

Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Improvement in the living conditions of workers is an important objective of development planners and India is no exception. The crux of this lies in returns from work, or wage level. While non-wage aspects are important, wage level is the most pertinent indicator of condition of workers and...

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Cross-Status Marriage Patterns in Late 17th Century Korea: Statistical Analysis of the Tansŏng Household Registers for 1678

Peterson, Mark A.; Phillips, Kerk L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper presents preliminary results of statistical analysis of the Tansŏng County household registers for 1678. We focus on identifying the social class of county residents and on identifying marriages. We use a multivariate LOGIT model to estimate probabilities of marriage, both within and...

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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?

Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel...

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Social security administration in India- study of provident funds and pension scheme

Rao, Madhava P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Social Security is becoming a distinct part of social policy of India and the time has come to give a serious thought to ever increasing Social Security needs of the population. There are diversified views on extension of Social Security coverage. Some say it should be limited to only working...

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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration

Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...

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Workfare – The Reinvention of the Social

Herrmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The presentation aims on refocusing the mainstream debate, starting from looking at work as the central reference rather than seeing the constituting problem of workfare as one of social policy/social security. Of course, at the end the objective is a clearer understanding of how measures aiming...

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Analysis of subjective wellbeing in low-income transitional countries: evidence from comparative national surveys in Armenia,Azerbaijan and Georgia

Nazim, Habibov; Elvin, Afandi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Drawing on the comparative household surveys, this article examines subjective wellbeing in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, three low-income transitional countries located on the Caucasus. We found that economic factors explain a considerable part of the variation in subjective wellbeing. The...

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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

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