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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?
Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020
. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … Turkey, driven by social spending on education and health, and complemented by direct taxes and transfer schemes that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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The impact of vocational training for the unemployed : experimental evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David J.; Almeida, Rita; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259624
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434618
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The early labor market impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries : evidence from high-frequency phone surveys
Khamis, Melanie; Prinz, Daniel; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2021
The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This paper presents estimates on the early impact of the crisis on labor markets in 39 countries based on high-frequency phone survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434707
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Unmasking the impact of COVID-19 on businesses : firm level evidence from across the world
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Avdiu, Besart; Cirera, Xavier - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses worldwide with a focus on developing countries. The results are based on a novel data set collected by the World Bank Group and several partner institutions in 51 countries covering...
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The microeconomics of creating productive jobs : a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003318765
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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data
Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167965
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Dividing the spoils : pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
Kapstein, Ethan B.; Milanović, Branko - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001469308
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Socioeconomic resilience in Sri Lanka : natural disaster poverty and wellbeing impact assessment
Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114431