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using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of …The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …
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In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
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many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …
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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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promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …
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The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...
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. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …
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. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …
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