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Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018)
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2018
on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439190
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The use and misuse of income data and extreme poverty in the United States
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek; Mooers, Victoria R.; … - 2019
More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and … contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439208
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Ending homelessness: More housing or fewer shelters?
Corinth, Kevin C. - 2015
Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the homeless relative to shelters. In this paper, I use community-level data over the period 2007-2014 in the United States to estimate short and long run associations between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439260
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income: Implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439292
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The impact of social ties on homelessness
Corinth, Kevin C.; Rossi-de Vries, Claire - 2017
While almost all homeless people are poor, most poor people do not experience homelessness. We use a detailed national survey to explore the role of social ties - including connection to relatives, friends and religious community - in explaining why only a subset of poor adults fall into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439308
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … workplaces further flexibility to adapt collective agreements to specific circumstances would help align wage growth with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global industrial production
Kamin, Steven B.; Kearns, John - 2021
This paper describes one of the first attempts to gauge the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global trajectory of a key measure of economic activity – industrial production – over the course of 2020. It is also among the first efforts to distinguish between the role of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439125
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Die Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring als Auswertungsmethode für wissenschaftliche Interviews
Weber, Susanne Theresia; Wernitz, Frank - 2021
This paper examines the key elements of the quantitative content analysis developed by the scientist Philip Mayring as a method of data evaluation. First, the circular research process is presented to explain the application of this method for scientific interviews in student theses. The content...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582736
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Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?
Fix, Blair - 2022
Among leftists, predicting the end of capitalism is a favorite parlor game. For example, as a graduate student in the 2010s, I remember discovering the 1976 edition of Marx’s Capital and being struck by the introduction. Written by the Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel, the foreword concluded that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275684
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The impact of GILTI and FDII on the investment location choice of U.S. multinationals
Mathur, Aparna; Singh, Kartikeya - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of two new international tax provisions, GILTI and FDII, passed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on U.S. multinational corporations' location of new capital. We analyze whether these rules help retain internationally mobile rents within the U.S. tax base and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439100