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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352313
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285
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Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584691
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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267333
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Concept and unintended consequences of weather index insurance: The case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan; Wolff, Hendrik - 2011
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282432
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403387
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Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700981
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Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
an important indicator of vulnerability during economic shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307384
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Labor Outcomes during the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Role of Personality, Cognition, and Shocks in Madagascar
Sahn, David E.; Villa, Kira M. - 2016
these traits interact with household-level shocks in determining their labor market entry decisions. We find that … part, a function of how individuals respond to exogenous shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584674
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005
paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of … shocks explaining the same amount of the variation in length of life as all the other observed individual and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274096