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of estimated wages. This paper shows that employment growth does not necessarily result in lower relative poverty shares …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …
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We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …
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, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …
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analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food stamps, TANF, General Assistance, and subsidized housing from New … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that …
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …
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Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point …
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In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
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This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern … formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and encourage the region's growth. Our results indicate that during the period … covered by this study (2005-2017), export expansion stimulated growth, more openness to trade reduced it, and that the …
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The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …
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The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed …
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