Showing 1 - 10 of 3,907
The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224929
substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337649
reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543927
constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614315
inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260265
Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421275
from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389002
Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293634