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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …
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suggest that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality and the gender pay gap, while …
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This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income families. The author proposes two simple income...
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increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality, and the gender pay gap, while generally improving the …
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The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
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date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian … policy recommendations which generally focus on poverty reduction, especially in disadvantaged regions of the country and on …
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income and poverty. This implies that high-income people are more likely to benefit from economic growth, especially in …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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