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drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a puzzle, suggesting either that the German job miracle mainly benefitted …
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drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a puzzle, suggesting either that the German job miracle mainly benefitted …
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-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the … by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … growth and employment opportunities, thereby providing a way out of poverty. Building on its achievements in this area, Costa …
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Wage Inequality -- Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China -- The Geography of Poverty … Democracy -- Part II (In)decent Work -- Decent Work for Change -- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing -- What Is … Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of …
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Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to...
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We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the … distribution across households worsens aggregated poverty at the state level. Similarly, good-quality jobs help households escape … poverty, whereas poor-quality jobs do not. This paper suggests that eradicating poverty requires the government to direct …
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discusses the contribution of the labour market and of the social protection system as effective mechanisms to overcome poverty …
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