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The Production and Consumption of Long-Term Care: Does Gender Matter?.
Ungerson, C. - European Forum, European University Institute - 1999
The question as to whether or not 'gender matters' in the issue of the delivery of care may seem a very odd one, given … the enormous literature that has developed within a number of social science disciplines that takes gender relations as …, the emphasis on gender has recently been diluted and altered such that the gendered perspective on care has tended to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005781081
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The gendered nature of the cost-of-living crisis in Europe
Sologon, Denisa M.; Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2024
distribution of inflation rates, employing quantile regressions and a decomposition approach, this research uncovers gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493924
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A consistent assessment of social welfare by two methodologies: The theory and evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study database
Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2024
Research background: Applied welfare economics offers various social welfare functions (SWF) for appraising income distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577254
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A consistent assessment of social welfare by two methodologies : the theory and evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study database
Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2024
Research background: Applied welfare economics offers various social welfare functions (SWF) for appraising income distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552762
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Overview of Social Protection in the EU.
Pestieau, P. - Centre de Méthodes Quantitatives et Operations … - 1999
The purpose of this paper is twofold: it presents the current state of the welfare state in the European Union, and it considers its future prospects given the various challenges to which it is exposed. In the presentation of social protection, which is the main component of the welfare state,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669509
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Scarcity, Abundance, and Appropriative Conflict.
Grossman, Herschel I. - Brown University, Department of Economics - 1998
Both common sense and historical examples suggest that resource scarcity causes appro- priative con ict as people struggle with each other to avoid hunger and starvation. But, economic intuition, also supported by historical examples, suggests that resource abundance, by giving people more to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181178
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Labour Supply and Welfare with Piecewise Linear Budget Constraints: an Introduction.
Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000
The aim of this paper is to provide an introductory analysis of labour supply in the presence of piecewise linear tax structures. Emphasis is given to the efficient computation of local optimal for a tax rate structure having any number of effective marginal tax rates.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587723
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Social Consequences of the Financial Crisis in Asia.
Knowles, J.C.; Pernia, E.M., Racelis, M. - Asian Development Bank - 1999
This paper assesses the social impact of the Asian Financial crisis, drawing on the results of studies in six countries, namely, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. The impacts appear to be less than were anticipated early in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474955
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The German Welfare States in the Era Kohl.
Alber, J. - European Forum, European University Institute - 1999
To what extent there was outstanding change or continuity in Germany and to what extent various programmes stand out as winners or losers of the era Kohl can only be determined by looking at longitudinal data of programme development and at comparative data the put the German Changes into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005781082
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Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Combining objective and subjective measures of welfare in Albania
Carletto, Gero; Zezza, Alberto - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
As shown empirically for many transition economies, even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and individuals. Since such exercises are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755000