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The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? "Poverty" is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …
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-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human … ; high income countries ; general well being ; poverty ; human development ; assessing capabilities …
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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
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that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation … measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those …
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dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility … between individual outcomes and their residential environment and do not take into account that selection into neighbourhoods … to sort into the most deprived neighbourhoods. Social housing tenants experience less selective sorting across …
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