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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

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The economics of grief

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health...

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The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2007

Using the Health and Retirement Survey and standard wage decomposition techniques, this paper finds that the difference in intermittent labor force participation between men and women accounts for 47 percent of the contribution to the wage gap of differences in observed characteristics. Not...

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Is Economic Growth Good for the Poor? Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means

Foster, James E.; Székely, Miguel - 2001

In this paper we propose the use of an alternative methodology to track low incomes based on Atkinson`s (1970) family of equally distributed equivalent income functions, which are called general means here. We provide a new characterization of general means that justifies their use in this...

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Welfare reforms and cild well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - 2008

welfare reforms are primarily spending more money on items related to employment but not items for children. Finally, a common …

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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008

In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns...

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Welfare reform: The US experience

Moffitt, Robert - 2008

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

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Poverty, Inequality, and Income Redistribution in the 'Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, 1985 to 1989

Goodin, Robert E.; Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66 (1997) 1, pp. 92-101

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Best Cases of the Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: The Netherlands, United States, and West Germany

Headey, Bruce; Goodin, Robert E.; Muffles, Ruud; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 153-163

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