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Canelas, Carla - 2015

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

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Welfare and the depth of informality : evidence from five African countries

Egger, Eva-Maria; Poggi, Cecilia; Gutierrez Rufrancos, … - 2021

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …

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Marginalized agency or agency at the margins : domestic workers and informality

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Lavee, Einat - 2025

This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs … informality. Using rich administrative data, we identify and characterize domestic workers and their labor market histories and … estimate the prevalence and degree of informality. We complement this analysis with a qualitative analysis of interviews with …

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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe

Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023

This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...

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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe

Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023

This paper studies the role and performance of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection during periods of crisis. To achieve this goal, the paper expands its analytical focus to include other tiers of social protection, in particular upstream...

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Dependence or constraints? : cash transfers, labor supply and the process of development

Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera - 2017

In this study, I use the timing and eligibility criteria of a large-scale conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools to identify the efect of the program on adults’ labor supply. I find that adult females increase their labor supply due to the program, mostly through...

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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo

Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023

Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....

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Scraping by : income and program participation after the loss of extended unemployment benefits

Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - 2014

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...

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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups

Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...

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Social protection beyond the bottom billion

Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2014

Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...

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