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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …, research can identify knowledge gaps that to date pose limits to successful employment creation policy. -- employment ; poverty …

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living in Nigeria

Akinmulegun, Sunday Ojo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 295-309

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

perspective, understand individual behavior, evaluate and design public policies, study poverty and inequality, and develop a …

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Una aproximación a la construcción de un indicador de pobreza multidimensional : cuáles son los focos de riesgo en España?

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 43-72

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in … poverty ; indicator ; factor analysis …

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¿Qué factores explican la pobreza multidimensional en España? . una aproximación a través de los modelos de ecuaciones estructurales

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 81-110

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain …, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy … and the type of employment contract are the most important variables to explain multidimensional poverty …

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Elterngeld führt im zweiten Jahr nach Geburt zu höherer Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 9, pp. 3-10

Mit der bundesweiten Einführung des Elterngeldes für Geburten ab dem 1.1.2007 wurde das Erziehungsgeld abgelöst. An die Stelle eines Transfers, der nach Prüfung der Bedürftigkeit gezahlt wurde, trat eine Einkommensersatzleistung. Zudem wurde die Bezugsdauer von maximal zwei Jahren auf in...

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Automatic stabilization and discretionary fiscal policy in the financial crisis

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries : an overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...

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Subsidios a hogares para inducir adopción de tecnologías de combustión de leña más eficiente y menos contaminantes : simulación para el caso de Temuco y Padre Las Casas

Gómez, Walter; Yep, Sue; Chávez, Carlos - In: Estudios de economía 40 (2013) 1, pp. 21-52

We study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs with respect to the impact on aggregate emissions, costs, and cost-effectiveness indicators. Two...

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