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In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …
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A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...
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role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
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The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …
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