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The Measurement of Gender Wage Discrimination : The Distributional Approach Revisited
Gradín, Carlos - 2011
This paper presents the advantages of taking into account the distribution of the individual wage gap when analysing female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent distributive proposals using quantile regressions or...
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012
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Expenditure Behavior of Households and Welfare of Children and Widows in Pakistan, South Africa : A Study on Unit Record Data
Ray, Ranjan - 2000
This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias …
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The anti-poverty marginal benefit of public funds
Collado, Diego - 2020
reactions are included, which were caused by unemployment benefits growing faster than in-work compensations. These results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175984
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'Inequality is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories About Inequality and Public Policy
Corak, Miles - 2017
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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As bad as it gets: Well being deprivation of sexually trafficked women
DiTommaso, M. L.; Shima, I.; Strøm, S.; Bettio, F. - 2007
The International Organization for Migration has collected data on trafficked individuals. The aim of this paper is to use the sub-sample of sexually exploited women in order to explore the relationship between their well being deprivation, their personal characteristics, and their working...
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The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty
Zacharias, Ajit - 2011
Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative...
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The measurement of time and income poverty
Zacharias, Ajit - 2011
; Household Production; Gender Disparities …
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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed
Lipman, Francine J. - 2018
Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117404
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The determination of unemployment benefits
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2001
While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …
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