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Yoo, Kyeongwon - 2017

This paper analyzes the household's off-farm labor response to risk using the Research Center on the Rural Economy (RCRE) panel data in China. This paper aims to find out whether the off-farm labor market, especially the migrant labor market, could be used as a means of coping with risk and...

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Urban development, excessive entry of firms and wage inequality in developing countries

Beladi, Hamid; Chao, Chi-Chur; Ee, Mong Shan; Hollas, … - 2017

This paper examines the short- and long-term effects of urbanization, via favorable urban development policies, on income distribution and social welfare for a developing country. The urban manufacturing sector is characterized by imperfect competition and free entry. Urbanization shifts rural...

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(Under)Enforcement of Poor Tenants' Rights

Sabbeth, Kathryn A. - 2020

Millions of tenants in the United States reside in substandard housing conditions ranging from toxic mold to the … housing in habitable condition can violate the warranty of habitability, common law torts, and, in some cases, consumer … tenants are poor. While the right to safe housing extends to all tenants, poor people are the most likely to get stuck in …

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Housing the Poor

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2017

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The face of urban poverty : explaining the prevalence of slums in developing countries

Arimah, Ben C. - 2010

One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in...

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