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children living on economic assistance in Sweden is used as the dependent variable while the regional share of foreign born … regional population, so does the regional share of children living on economic assistance; being unable to enter the labour … market is the most probable reason. Higher incomes lower the regional share of children living on economic assistance. …
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Immigrants toil in sweatshops for torturously long days at sub-minimum wages, which may or may not be paid, with little meaningful recourse. Immigrant workers with and without authorization to work in the United States are disproportionately represented among the lowest earners. The average wage...
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This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-year period from 1993 to 2003 … bivariate probit model. The results show that the distribution of poor women and children differs across groups, space and time …
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of children under five years old are facing stunting. It is notable that poverty levels in Balochistan province of … results show that 71% children under five years of age are deprived in nutrition, health, child development, housing and … sanitation. A significant difference exists between rural (75%) and urban (57%) multidimensional children deprivation. The study …
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This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 … is higher for children whose mothers have lower levels of education, with net movements into rather than out of poverty. …
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lens risk leaving behind millions of children because children are not economic agents. Despite global recognition of the … rural children, male children and children living in households without access to electricity and under female headship, on … average, suffer higher incidence of multiple deprivations than their counterparts. Children with higher birth orders, twins …
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The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the effect of the crisis on the population shares, the...
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The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
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The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732003