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Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...
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The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of … which to draw when under such pressures. Households with a newborn child face two additional constraints: the income …-generating capability of mothers can be moderately or severely reduced; and households may have to spend more because of the newborn child …
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distribution of jobs across households. A higher value of the uneven job distribution indices implies that there are relatively … large numbers of households with multiple employed people and households with no employed people. Similarly, poor … distribution across households worsens aggregated poverty at the state level. Similarly, good-quality jobs help households escape …
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The paper shows the results of the RESCuE project, an in-depth qualitative investigation of 250 vulnerable households … prerequisites. Second, a wide scope of interrelated, substitutable and polyvalent practices allows the very few resilient households …, there is a surprising high relevance of common goods for low income households. Moreover, certain cultural patterns of …
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Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...
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Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...
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