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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption. -- collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488411
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data : evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
new public data sources. -- living wage ; employment ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683226
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Child poverty and family transfers in southern Europe
Matsaganis, Manos (contributor) - 2005
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002657947
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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education
Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636682
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The returns to education over time and the effect of COVID-19
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2024
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064494
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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes
Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where … childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean … partial understanding of poverty in Korea and its possible causes, in particular, in form of poor family background or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204499
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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo (contributor) - 2008
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered skills or alternative routes to acquiring skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793530
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Cream-skimmer or underdog? : labor type selectivity, pre-program wage, and rural labor training program outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - 2009
; poverty alleviation ; sunshine program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808498
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Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform : the Finnish experience
Böckerman, Petri; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Uusitalo, Roope - 2009
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics. Since the timing of the reform differed across schools, we can compare the performance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810332
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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859438