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Welfare Reform and New York City’s Low-Income Population

Chernick, Howard; Reimers, Cordelia - Graduate School and University Center <New York, NY> - 2001

[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...

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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality

Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

[...]In this paper, we update this affordability debateusing data from the 1990s. We follow Gyourko and Linneman(1993) in addressing the affordability issue by asking asimple question: Is a home of a given quality from ten ortwenty years ago more or less affordable today to a householdsimilarly...

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Talking to families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

The first round of interviews with 100 families living intwo East London neighbourhoods has unearthed newinformation on problems and strengths in these areas,families’ coping strategies, and area change. Families’dissatisfaction with the areas was high, compared with thenational average. But...

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Rural immigrant population growth, 1950-2000: wavesor ripples?

Dust, Andrew; Orazem, Peter F.; Wohlgemuth, Darin - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

native population growth to the economic incentives offered by ruralcounties in the Midwest and the South. We find that in … immigrant population inthese nontraditional rural destinations is not tied to concentrations of existing immigrantpopulations …. Rural immigrant population growth is more responsive than native populations toeconomic incentives and immigrant growth is …

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How Effective is the British Government’s Attempt toReduce Child Poverty?

Piachaud, David; Sutherland, Holly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of childpoverty one of its central objectives. This paper describes the specificinitiatives involved in Labour’s approach and weighs them up in termsof their potential impact. After setting out the extent of the problem ofchild...

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Tightropes and Tripwires:New Labour’s Proposals and Means-Testing in OldAge

Rake, Katherine; Falkingham, Jane; Evans, Martin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This paper analyses the proposals contained in the Government GreenPaper, A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions for low paidworkers and the potential of the new rules to guarantee a decent incomein old age. It discusses the general principles inherent in the design ofthe British...

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Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and … population movements.[...] …

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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...

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UNEMPLOYMENT AND LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS

Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Ioannides, Yannis M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

labor supply.[...] …

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