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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
. Unhealthy eating intergenerational transmission appears to be more intense amongst lower household income individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
Boeri, Tito; Brandolini, Andrea - 2005
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262639
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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269667
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Income taxation of US households: Basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278342
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Health and labour income of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - 2013
and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon … household consumption survey. Using OLS estimates, we find a positive and significant effect of health on labour incomes for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293185
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - 2003
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262237
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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon … household consumption survey. Using OLS estimates, we find a positive and significant effect of health on labour incomes for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635586
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822588
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Labour contracts and performance of Cameroonian firms
Kamga, Benjamin Fomba - 2011
) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282414