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countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …
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The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
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This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...
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counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …
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Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …
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Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …
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Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …
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We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type …. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented among those lifted from poverty by the CTC …, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By 2017, disparities by family type mostly disappear, as eligibility and anti-poverty …
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Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …
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