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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516222
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics : snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty
Biewen, Martin - 2014
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422488
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Who got what, then and now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … ‘inequality convergence’ with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274876
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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008734
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Energy Subsidy Reform in Egypt : The Gender – 'Energy' Poverty Nexus
El Hamidi, Fatma - 2017
The purpose of this study is to quantify the effects of the current energy reform policy on household expenditures along gender and regional lines. Gender analysis helps to identify constraints such as transportation poverty faced by women to access economic opportunities like education and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945554
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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511662
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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567014
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules
Blumkin, Tomer - 2014
In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055362
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363