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Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance … schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public … perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …
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in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …
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It is generally accepted that lower population growth is associated with positive economic development. Although there is a large body of literature supporting this hypothesis at the macro level, few studies have analyzed the causal effect of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In...
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Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
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