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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293303
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268669
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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience
Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009
This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273493
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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines
Le, Ai Lam Thi - 2005
In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429810
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Earnings, income and poverty among welfare leavers in Sweden
Persson, Anna - 2011
welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … poverty. We conclude that leaving welfare is not always associated with becoming financially better off, and post welfare well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321105
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Inter- and intra-household linkages between the informal and formal sector: a case study for Urban Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - 2005
Given the current focus of international development policy on pro-poor growth and poverty reduction, the role of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284767
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M.; Fugazza, Marco; Maloney, William F. - 2008
with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268792
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Labour market flows and worker trajectories in Canada during COVID-19
Brochu, Pierre; Créchet, Jonathan; Deng, Zechuan - 2020
Labour Market Flows and Worker Trajectories in Canada during COVID-1We use the confidential-use files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to study the employment dynamics in Canada from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic through to mid-summer. Using the longitudinal dimension of this dataset,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299427
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Germany's labour market in coronavirus distress - New challenges to safeguarding employment
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021
We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606184
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COVID-19 and OECD Labour Markets: What Impact on Gender Gaps?
Queisser, Monika - In: Intereconomics 56 (2021) 5, pp. 249-253
Across the board statements on who suffers most are not helpful and may actually be a disservice to the fight for greater gender equality.
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