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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics, with an Application to Poverty Dynamics among American Women

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, we illustrate this framework with an application to poverty … rates among young women in the United States. We use this model to analyse differences in poverty experiences, particularly …

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Poverty Dynamics Among Young Americans

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most … of these experienced one or two years. A significant group, by age 34, had suffered five or more years of poverty out of …

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Herding cats? Management and university performance

McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and that departments in older, research-intensive...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024. The …

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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...

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Demographic Dividends Revisited

Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost two decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and Jeffrey Williamson used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the...

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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the...

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