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rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …
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part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty … rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this … was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its …
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rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282356
Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options …
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rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359863
Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … the simulation of MI schemes in the microsimulation model EUROMOD to obtain a new 'closer to reality' baseline simulation …
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This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client … Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), a database using the Progress out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis … clients to reduce their measured poverty. Loan size, duration, and the economic activity supported all have strongly …
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(NWTF), a database using the Progress Out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis using both OLS and … measured poverty. Loan size, duration, and the economic activity supported all have strongly identifiable effects. Moreover …
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Industry 4.0 and robots are said to speed up productivity thereby inducing a 'quantum leap' towards the 'end of work' and calling for a complete change of social security institutions that have so far been closely linked to employment. Unconditional basic income is the cry of the day, curiously...
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The European Commission declared 2022 the "European Year of Youth." Apart from the obvious aim to enhance its visibility and political legitimacy, the Commission responded to the fact that COVID-19 badly affected especially young people, manifested in the rise of youth unemployment and of youth...
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