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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291346
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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2012
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291391
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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro - level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291424
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Sweden´s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in theRoller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and aHalf of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income Survey. The elderly werenot isolated as pensions were cut,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860764
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition:Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861147
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Overcrowding in British Cities in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861199
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291372
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries
Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide … audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268545
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa: implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268931