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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266455
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On the determinants of changes in wage inequality in Bolivia
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2015
In recent years, Bolivia has experienced a series of economic and political transformations that have directly affected the labor markets, particularly the salaried urban sector. Real wages have shown strong increases across the distribution, while also presenting a decrease in inequality. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513087
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784670
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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) for Ethiopia and South Africa
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020
is high and the synthetic dataset appropriate for the time poverty analysis. For Ethiopia, due to data quality … restriction and sample reweighting, the Ethiopian synthetic dataset seems appropriate for the time poverty analysis. …
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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) for Ghana and Tanzania
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
quality of match is high and the synthetic dataset appropriate for the time poverty analysis. …
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