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Female poverty and intrahousehold inequality in transition economies : an unequal distribution of resources within the family is a special concern for female poverty
Piccoli, Luca - 2017
Transition to a market economy is accompanied by a period of greater economic uncertainty. Women are likely to suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011618198
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Female poverty and intrahousehold inequality in transition economies : an unequal distribution of resources within the family is a special concern for female poverty
Piccoli, Luca - 2023
Transition to a market economy is accompanied by a period of greater economic uncertainty. Women are likely to suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289583
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Individual poverty measurement using a fuzzy intrahousehold approach
Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017
This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732008
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Determinants Of Poverty During Transition: Household Survey Evidence From Ukraine
Brück1, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander; Muravyev, Alexander; … - Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004975895
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Analysis of the Determinants of Monetary Poverty Among Female-Headed Households in Benin (Analyse Des Determinants De La Pauvrete Monetaire Des Femmes Chefs De Menage Au Benin)
Attanasso, Marie Odile - 2013
This study investigates the impact of the gender of household's head on the determinants of monetary poverty in Benin Republic, using data collected during the 1999 living standard measurement survey in rural and in urban areas. The results show that there is no feminization of poverty as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050635
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Analysis of the Determinants of Monetary Poverty Among Female-Headed Households in Benin
Attanasso, Marie Odile - 2013
This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the Republic of Benin using data collected during the 1999 living standards measurement survey in the country's rural and urban areas. The results show that there has not been any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050638
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Determinants of Monetary Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Benin
Attanasso, Marie-Odile - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2005
This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the Republic of Benin using data collected during the 1999 living standards measurement survey in the country's rural and urban areas. The results show that there has not been any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696349
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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases : the role of education for development and international competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011
The paper is based on an individual life-cycle model, which describes the purely economic components of human capital. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the individual as well as the total tax base of a nation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009356993
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Collective household welfare and intra‐household inequality
Chavas, Jean-Paul; Menon, Martina; Pagani, Elisa; … - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 2, pp. 667-696
We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources among household members is related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011856707
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Brechas de género en el mercado laboral y pobreza: Una aproximación a partir de microsimulaciones
Martínez Torrico, Karen Marion - 2017
The achievement of gender equality in the labor market is not only a desirable goal by itself, but by its effects on growth and welfare. Based on such acknowledgement, this research quantifies the effects of gender gaps in employment, participation, occupational segregation and labor income,...
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