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and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …
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We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …
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strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …
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Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011908
strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682249