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Poor vs Non-Poor Households in Uruguay: Welfare Differences from Food Price Changes
Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021
changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
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Influence of socio-demographic characteristics on different dimensions of household food insecurity in Montevideo, Uruguay
Rossi, Máximo; Ferre, Zuleika; Curutchet, María Rosa; … - 2017
Using a cross-sectional survey with a representative sample of households from the metropolitan area centered on Montevideo, we evaluate first the factorial structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household Food Security Scale (ELCSA) with an exploratory factor analysis. Secondly, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714657
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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Overeducation at a glance. Determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...
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Teaching ‘out of field’ in STEM subjects in Australia: Evidence from PISA 2015
Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul; Watt, Helen - 2020
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is a critical part of a modern education system. Motivating students to learn STEM subjects is however a challenge. Teachers have a critical role in motivating students but to do this effectively they need to have appropriate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196388
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Teaching ‘out of field’ in STEM subjects in Australia: Evidence from PISA 2015
Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul; Watt, Helen - 2020
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is a critical part of a modern education system. Motivating students to learn STEM subjects is however a challenge. Teachers have a critical role in motivating students but to do this effectively they need to have appropriate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217724
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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252186
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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2020
This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...
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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates: The role of personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815303
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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826016