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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399582
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Is there poverty convergence?
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2017
Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and the link between income growth and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659608
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The trade-off between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions
Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 142 (2017), pp. 249-256
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A human development index at the household level
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348169
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Income inequality and carbon emissions
Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - 2011
We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960-2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349168
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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254239
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Composite indices based on partial least squares
Yoon, Jisu; Klasen, Stephan; Dreher, Axel; Krivobokova, … - 2015
In this paper, we compare Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods to generate weights for composite indices. In this context we also consider various treatments of non-metric variables when constructing such composite indices. Using simulation studies we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496759
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315199
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762297