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average incomes surged from 2017 to 2018 they were still below their peak in 2014. More than 80% of all income growth between …
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average incomes surged from 2017 to 2018 they were still below their peak in 2014. More than 80% of all income growth between …
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Spanish Abstract: La migración tanto interna como externa es un concepto difícil de definir dada su dinámica social, económica y política tan variada y cambiante. Las definiciones están asociadas a las razones por las cuales se produce este fenómeno y las posibilidades individuales o...
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The objective of this paper is to combine three topics - international migration, poverty, and pandemics - in the context of public policy formulation at the national level. I revise the literature and put together historical evidence. First of all, I discuss international migration; second, I...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...
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addressed to labor market investigations, its questionnaire fields only information related to labor income though, not … considering other types of income sources, such as pensions, retirement benefits, social transfers etc. Given such a limitation …, this paper presents a proposal to improve PME`s utility. This proposal consists of imputing non-labor income at PME, based …
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Over the past two decades, poverty and income inequality declined sharply in Espírito Santo. About half of the observed …
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This paper addresses a disaggregated analysis which integrates gross and net public debt or, in other words, government assets and liabilities. This approach seemed appropriate due to the recent transition in the patrimonial composition of the public sector undertaken by the means of...
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This paper uses data from PNAD to detail the construction and analyze a multidimensional index of families' vulnerabilities within a spectrum of dimensions. In order to do so, this text interprets and adapts the methodology put forward by Barros, Carvalho and Franco (2006) and applies it to 83...
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point is that very poor societies will never display high Gini indexes of personal distribution of income because there is … maximum level of inequality possible at each level of income. This paper extends the concept to cover regional cases …. Countries with populations close to subsistence level inevitably display low regional inequality of income per capita. Rising …
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