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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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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
other countries using data gleaned from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). …
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
total labor income. These effects are persistent even four years later. We show that the primary mechanism for this job loss …
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
total labor income. These effects are persistent even four years later. We show that the primary mechanism for this job loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455653
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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …
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Effects of the minimum wage on child health
Wehby, George L.; Kaestner, Robert; Lyu, Wei; Dave, Dhaval - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 412-448
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmid, Kai D.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1593-1635
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us-for the first time-to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
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Income Volatility and Portfolio Choices
Chang, Yongsung; Hong, JaeHwa; Karabarbounis, Marios; … - 2020
portfolios around structural breaks in income volatility. When the standard deviation of labor-income growth doubles, the share …
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Minimum wage policy and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gindling, Thomas; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023
In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income …
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Mobile internet and income improvement : evidence from Vietnam
Trang Thi Pham - 2023
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