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The measurement of time and income poverty

Zacharias, Ajit - 2011

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

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The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: Decomposition and uniform ordering

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Pitts, M. Melinda; Wu, Ke - 2014

We examine the cardinal gap between wage distributions of the incumbents and newly hired workers based on entropic distances that are well-defined welfare theoretic measures. Decomposition of several effects is achieved by identifying several counterfactual distributions of different groups....

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub; Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW). Compared to the conventional measures of income, the LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income from wealth, government expenditures, and...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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Cigarette smoking and food insecurity among low-income families in the United States, 2001

Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Lee, Chung-won - 2007

.S. poverty thresholds to identify 2,099 families living near or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Food insecurity … insecurity of approximately 6 percentage points. Given our finding that families near the federal poverty level spend a large …

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Incorporating insurance rate estimates and differential mortality into net marginal Social Security tax rate calculations

Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002

differences in poverty among the population over age sixty-five and the current debate on the future of the Social Security system. …

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