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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia - 2010
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, we use a simple postcard voting experiment designed to capture the populationﾒs desire for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148282
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Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis : Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
Batista, Catia - 2010
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141219
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486970
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition:Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861147
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Overcrowding in British Cities in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861199
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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms onIncome Distribution: A Decomposition Approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861651
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Poverty in Britain in 1904:An Early Social Survey Rediscovered
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861859
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130794
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Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2011
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134106
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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Jolliffe, Dean - 2010
Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are less healthy in terms of excess accumulation of fat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134989