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by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …
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to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
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High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system … easing the government’s financial burden – but also reduced poverty. …
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As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact … proposed method proves useful for evaluating the theoretical basis of the standard methods for measuring chronic poverty. …
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In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle (EOp). Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure...
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This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512110
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an exante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512115
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543265
This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543270
As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes to use an … interpersonal comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts … measuring chronic poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972532