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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy

Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty...

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Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts

Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households’ taxliabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts onthe distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxespaid and income,...

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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec:A Microeconomic Approach

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

data from Statistics Canada’sSurvey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec’s underground economyamounted …

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Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective HouseholdLabour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Bloemen, Hans G. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

the collectiveapproach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costsof work. We … pooling of men’s earningsand the household’s non-labour income in the female’s budget constraint. These differencesin outcomes …

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Understanding Post-War Changes in U.S. HouseholdProduction: A Full-Income Demand-System Perspective

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

This paper examines the aggregate demand for inputs, including housework and otherservices, used by the US household … housework substitutes and household appliance servicesare shown to be better substitutes for men’s housework than for women …'s housework. Also, men’sunpaid housework, household transportation input, recreation input, and “other inputs” are luxurygoods …

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Haushaltsnahe Dienstleistungen für Ältere

Weinkopf, Claudia - Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen> - 2005

In der bereits vorliegenden Expertise Produkte und Dienstleistungen für mehr Lebensqualitätim Alter (Cirkel et al. 2004) wurde herausgearbeitet, dass angesichtsder demographischen Entwicklung und der im Durchschnitt vergleichsweise gutenfinanziellen Ausstattung von Seniorenhaushalten...

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Poverty in Britain in 1904:An Early Social Survey Rediscovered

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative …

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The distribution of households consumption-expenditure budget shares

Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined … as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of … Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find that household budget share distributionsare fairly stable over time for each …

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Interpersonal allocation behavior in a household savings experiment

Anderhub, Vital; Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

We investigate the intertemporal and interpersonal allocation behavior ofspouses with different deterministic life expectations in an experiment. In eachperiod of their life both partners propose a consumption level one of which isthen randomly implemented. In spite of the complex dynamics...

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The Distribution of Consumption-ExpenditureBudget Shares. Evidence fromItalian Households

Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditure budgetshares distributions (HBSDs …) —defined as the share of household total expenditurespent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample …

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