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Prisoners of Hope : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Burns, Patrick - 2016

well as the state's payroll tax records for these parents.Key outcome: most welfare parents remain in poverty even after …

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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Force, Peter - 2016

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...

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Preparing for Tomorrow's Social Policy Agenda

Hicks, Peter - 2013

This 2002 strategic planning paper was prepared under contract for Human Resources Development Canada, a federal government department with a broad mandate for income security, social and labour market policies and programs. While the historical analysis of the paper is now dated, the main...

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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration

Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

discussion on traditional problems as poverty, marginalisation and exclusion. Our thesis is that these problems, far from being …

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The Cage of Poverty

Drayse, Mark - 2016

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …

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Hungry Cooks : Poverty Wages and Homelessness in the Fast Food Industry

Flaming, Daniel; Burns, Patrick - 2023

The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low …

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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve

Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...

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Poverty is a public bad: Panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

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