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Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - 2019

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household Income Project indicate that while, assessed against...

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Working, Volunteering and Mental Health in the Later Years

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2017

This paper examines the effect that working for pay and volunteering has on the mental health of older Irish women and men. Data from four waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA) are used. Three measures that capture different dimensions of mental health are considered. Ordinary...

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Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Mac Innes, Hanna; … - 2017

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using two criteria. First, the disposable income of the...

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Working Beyond the Normal Retirement Age in Urban China and Urban Russia

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; Wan, … - 2021

The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated logit models show that, in both countries, the probability of working after normal retirement age...

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Left Behind, At Risk, and Vulnerable Elders in Rural China: What the RUMIC Data Reveal about the Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Being Left Behind

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015

continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas …

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?

Molitor, David; White, Corey - 2023

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures—and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural … due to historical deficiencies in monitoring and reporting, especially in rural areas. As a step toward closing these gaps …

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The insider-outsider theory: a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership regulations, restrictions on political participation, access to public services and more. This paper...

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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from ?poverty? to ?social exclusion?. Broadly interpreted, ?social exclusion? implies the ?inability of an individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functionings of...

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