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Household Income Mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian … households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu … Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households …
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The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty Around the World
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria : A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
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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 using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measurepoverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines...
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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … population transitioning between consumption classes and increasing mobility over time. Yet, the majority of those who escape … less likely to experience downward mobility. We also find that states exhibit heterogenous mobility patterns …
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Rural People's Perception of Poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn - 2007
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The respondent's perception of how much cash is needed varies...
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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact has been Underestimated
Schiff, Maurice - 2007
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...
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Costly Posturing : Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Decerf, Benoit - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
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