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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
devastated California’s economy. Low-income and minority Californians in particular have felt the brunt of both the virus and the …
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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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Medición de los Ingresos y la Pobreza Oficial en América Latina y el Caribe
Beccaria, Luis; Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo - 2013
El presente documento analiza las encuestas de hogares y las metodologías de las estimaciones oficiales de pobreza de la región; en particular, en primer lugar busca analizar la forma en que se miden los ingresos de las personas y los hogares en las encuestas de hogares de América Latina y el...
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Expanding credit access : using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2007
Expanding credit access is a key ingredient of development strategies worldwide. Microfinance practitioners, policymakers, and donors have ambitious goals for expanding access, and seek efficient methods for implementing and evaluating expansion. There is less consensus on the role of consumer...
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Population management, RH law, and inclusivity
Pernia, Ernesto M. - 2014
Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote...
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Medición de los ingresos y la pobreza oficial en América Latina y el Caribe
Beccaria, Luís Alberto; Gluzmann, Pablo - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777951
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Informality and work status
Fields, Gary S. - 2020
The most important determinant of households' livelihoods is how much they earn for their labour. People in informal work are more likely to be low earners, to live in poverty, and to make fewer transitions into the higher-paying work statuses. The paper is divided into three main sections: what...
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The role of the labour market
Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013
Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …
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Generating employment, raising incomes and addressing poverty in Greece
Bulman, Tim; Pisu, Mauro - 2018
. Jobs are returning, making inroads into high unemployment, but their wages and skill levels are lower than many that were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914643
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The impact of legal minimum wages on employment, income, and poverty incidence in the Philippines
Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Lanzona, Leonardo A. - 2016
income that would allow them healthy and dignified lives. It is also seen as a tool to protect the weak against exploitation …; and (iv) tend to ironically reduce average income and raise household poverty rate. These results illustrate how rapid …
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