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effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
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effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762141
characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
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characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703767
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
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This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in...
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Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822692
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
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School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and community characteristics are important in explaining...
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household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that … significantly disadvantage low to middle income households and women as second earners. We base the critique both on a theoretical … model of the family household and a detailed analysis of Australian income and employment data. …
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