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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities : increasing separation between poor and rich

Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …

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The RUMiC longitudinal survey : fostering research on labor markets in China

Akgüç, Mehtap; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms of spatial coverage and panel dimension for research on labor markets in China. The survey is a collaboration project between the Australian National University, Beijing Normal...

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Short-term migration and intergenerational persistence of industry in rural India

Nandi, Tushar Kanti; Kar, Saibal - 2015

One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achieving socially desirable outcomes. This paper studies the effect of short-term internal...

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Data scarcity and poverty measurement

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...

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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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Revealed informal activity

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2011

What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets. But many people participate in both...

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UK households' carbon footprint : a comparison of the association between household characteristics and emissions from home energy, transport and other goods and services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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The Brazilian wage curve : new evidence from the national household survey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Rokicki, Bartłomiej; Souza, Kênia … - 2014

This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 Federative Units over the period 2002 - 2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.08 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as...

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