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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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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities: A ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290101
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks …. We let individuals with di fferent education levels have a separate income process; and within each skill group, we allow … the income processes diff er systematically by age, skill level and their interaction. To accurately describe labor income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230961
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers, and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks …. We let individuals with different education levels have a separate income process; and within each skill group, we allow … the income processes differ systematically by age, skill level and their interaction. To accurately describe labor income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238207
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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities : a ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674603
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The Income of Immigrants Who Pursue Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Rollin, Anne-Marie - 2012
Administrative Databank (LAD), changes in immigrants' employment income over an eight-year period are studied based on whether these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100919
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Measurement and Sources of Income Inequality Among Rural and Urban Households in Nigeria
Oyekale, Abayomi - 2007
Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini …-decomposition, regression-based and Shapley approaches. Results show that in 2004, income inequality is higher in rural areas than in urban … areas. The study also noted that employment income increases inequality while agricultural income decreases inequality …
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It Pays to Have Guanxi : Social Networks and Household Income in China
Wu, Kai - 2020
We evaluate the association between social networks and household income using a panel dataset of representative … that social networks are positively associated with the probability and proportion of the various types of income. In … mainly affect various types of income through improved financial sophistication, higher job position level, close government …
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e. goods consumed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628207
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Keeping up with the Novaks? : income distribution as a determinant of household debt in CESEE
Hake, Mariya; Poyntner, Philipp - 2020
This paper constitutes an initial attempt to shed light on the role of income distribution in household debt and … into account the hierarchical structure of the data, our results support the notion that higher income inequality is … loans. Interpersonal comparisons turn out to drive loan intentions, however, mainly on the very top of the income …
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