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such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted … at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen in the literature formal discussions and measurement of the concept of … time poverty alongside the techniques used for measuring consumption poverty. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood …
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poverty and inequality of an increase in the working hours of the population up to what is referred to as a full employment … reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even … at full employment levels, poverty would remain massive, and the higher workload that the full employment scenario would …
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Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...
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One of the aspects of the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa relates to time use, namely where orphans end up living and what they spend their time doing in their new household of adoption. While some orphans are welcomed in centres and institutions, many live with relatives or other members of...
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This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty …” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development … outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the “double workday” of women, has long been a staple of discussion of women …
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Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due …, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great … Recession. Using the 2003–12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In …
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This paper summarizes the micro‐level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐...
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For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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explanation of intergenerational income correlation in Sweden. <p> Paper [II] focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The … purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of … from true state dependence, where the experience of poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on …
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This paper contributes to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics in poverty and … income distribution and poverty would change as a result of a different set of microsimulations. In particular, the … distributional structure of 1998 is imposed in 1990. The evidence suggest that while poverty responds strongly to the simulation …
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