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earnings failed to pull them and their families out of poverty. Assistance in the form of childcare, transportation, medical …
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Standard statistical methods in the empirical economics and finance literature are mostly applicable to data that is aggregated on equally spaced time points. However, a key characteristic of many economic and financial variables is that they occur randomly and are observed irregularly in time....
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This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
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In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...
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This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...
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A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of …
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This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …
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instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on … society. This paper fills a gap in the literature byassessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a … welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …
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and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …
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