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This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … Pakistan using Working-Leser framework and propensity score matching. Findings point to differing consumption behaviour across … foreign and domestic recipients. Foreign remittances are considered as fungible and spent in the same way as other sources of …
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, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
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and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …
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, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …. Over the period 2006-2018, inequality and poverty estimates display rather different trends across European countries. …
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Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications of (initial) endowment inequality when the rich have a higher marginal savings rate than the poor. More unequal societies grow faster in the transition process, and therefore exhibit a higher speed of convergence....
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We explore how the underemployment problem of less-developed economies is related to income inequality. Our crucial assumption is that consumers have non-homothetic preferences over differentiated products of formal-sector goods and thus that inequality affects the composition of aggregate...
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We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …
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Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous … for the total Bt cotton area in Pakistan. …
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poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
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