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Labor earnings imputation: An application using labor surveys in Mexico

Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo; Lopez-Videla, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to make imputation of earnings in observations with missing values in the Encuesta Nacional de … present imputations by two methods, and also a correction for estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings … values of earnings are ignored. Differences are acute when measuring labor poverty. …

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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)

Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...

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Measuring Time Poverty and Analyzing Its Determinants: Concepts and Application to Guinea

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The availability of better data on time use in developing countries makes it important to provide tools for analyzing such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen...

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Poverty Reduction from Full Employment: A Time Use Approach

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even …

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Labor Shortages Despite Underemployment? Seasonality in Time Use in Malawi

Wodon, Quentin; Beegle, Kathleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...

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Gender, Time Use, and Poverty: Introduction

Blackden, Mark; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the...

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Issues and problems in human resource development in the NER (India)

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The demographic canvas of the North Eastern Region of India (NER) is perhaps the most colourful and enchanting in the whole nation. We do not find in any other part of the country such a variety – anthropologically, socially, linguistically, culturally, economically, politically and...

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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh

Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

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Determinants of Poverty in Elderly-Headed Households in the Philippines

Mapa, Dennis S.; Bersales, Lisa Grace S.; Albis, Manuel … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper looks at the impact of population dynamics on poverty in elderly-headed households in the Philippines using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) from 2000 to 2006. The population of the elderly, or those 60 years and above, has increased from 3.2 million in 1990...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

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