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Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen … Armutslückenverhältnis wird auf Ebene der Analyseregionen durch das aktuelle Vorgehen in der Regel überschätzt. Die Ungleichheit in der … Armutsberichterstattung zu erwarten ist. Deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den Landesteilen bleiben bestehen, allerdings wirkt die Ungleichheit …
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accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing … banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
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A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...
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This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty …. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property …
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poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …
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in urban poverty. …
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Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
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Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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rates of deep poverty among these families. Additional analyses suggest that doubling up is a way for families who timed out …
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