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inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of … inequality. This is not affected by social mobility: upward mobility does not vary much with the business cycle at birth, for …
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. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare reform in which the city districts in Stockholm gradually …
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transition rates into and out of welfare. Using register data on the entire population of Stockholm, we are able to capture how … both entry and exit rates were affected when activation require-ments were introduced at different times in Stockholm …
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form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis …
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transition rates into and out of welfare. Using register data on the entire population of Stockholm, we are able to capture how … both entry and exit rates were affected when activation requirements were introduced at different times in Stockholm's city …
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. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare reform in which the city districts in Stockholm gradually …
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We construct estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for Great Britain for the years 1995 and 2005. We also produce estimates of the official British measures HBAI (from the Department for Work and Pensions annual report titled Households below Average Income) and ROI...
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This report explores the development of exploitation theory in mathematical Marxian economics by reviewing the main controversies surrounding the proper definition of exploitation since the contribution of Okishio (1963). The report first examines the debates on the Fundamental Marxian Theorem...
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A large literature on African economies argues that ethnicity plays a role in the politics and economics of African countries. Unfortunately, much of this literature is speculative or anecdotal because of the lack of data, with the exception of a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a...
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Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased … modestly between 1983 and 2001, the inequality of augmented wealth (the sum of retirement wealth and net worth) surged from …
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