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The Right to Money as the Fundamental Right of Individuals in the Coming Digital Economy
Hegadekatti, Kartik - 2017
Poverty has been a common feature in all human societies since the dawn of civilization. Purchasing power of an individual decides her standard of living. In many cases, it even decides whether a person can live or not (eg: in starvation or malnourishment, victims have no purchasing power to buy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958011
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Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Central and Eastern Europe
Brzezinski, Michal - 2019
This paper uses the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to study the changes in income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe during the Great Recession (2008-2012) and its determinants. Inequality changes are decomposed using an Oa-xaca-Blinder-like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858334
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Post-Adaptation Growth Recovery in Poland and Russia - Similarities and Differences
Dabrowski, Marek - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707430
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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet; Hoffman, … - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129945
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(Un)Happiness in Transition
Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2009
Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and … in macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition (which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272044
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(Un)happiness in Transition
Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2009) 2, pp. 143-68
Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and … in macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition (which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014600
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Has recent economic growth in Poland been pro-poor?
Brzeziński, Michał - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011
This paper applies two recently introduced measurement frameworks to analyze the effects of economic growth and inequality changes on the performance of the poor’s living standard in Poland during the recent decade of 1998–2008. We use both an approach based on a general class of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612960
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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011
With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127325
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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922962
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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet; Hoffman, … - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025181