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Disparities in labour market and income trends during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis : evidence from Germany

Braband, Carsten; Consiglio, Valentina Sara; Grabka, … - 2022

This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis using SOEP-CoV data. It shows that, overall, the self-employed and disadvantaged groups of workers were more severely affected by the...

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Two decades of rising inequality and declining poverty in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Warr, Peter George; Sitthiroth Rasphone; Menon, Jayant - 2015

Over the last 2 decades the distribution of private household expenditures has become more unequal in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, with the Gini coefficient rising from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. The increase in inequality was statistically...

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Two decades of declining poverty but rising inequality in Laos

Warr, Peter George; Sitthiroth Rasphone; Menon, Jayant - 2018

Over the past two decades consumption inequality has risen within Laos, while absolute poverty incidence halved. The estimated Gini coefficient of private household expenditures per person rose from 0.311 to 0.364. This increase in the sample-based estimate of inequality was statistically...

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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries from the 2000 and 2003 rounds of the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), using...

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Harnessing the potential of online marketplaces in the Philippines : insights from the National Information and Communications Technology Household Survey

Bayudan-Dacuycuy, Connie; Dacuycuy, Lawrence B. - 2022

Using the Philippines' first-ever nationally representative survey designed for characterizing digital commercial and noncommercial engagements, including ICT use, digital economy, and technology-enabled incidents, we investigate the presence of gendered disparities in online marketplaces. Doing...

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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya

Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018

In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested that supermarkets may contribute to rising rates of...

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COVID-19 labour market shocks and their inequality implications for financial wellbeing

Botha, Ferdi; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; New, Sonja C. de; … - 2020

Using an online survey of Australian residents, we elicit the potential impacts of COVID-19 related labour market shocks on a validated measure of financial wellbeing. Experiencing a reduction in hours and earnings, entering into unemployment or having to file for unemployment benefits during...

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Does occupational licensing impact incomes? : the German crafts case

Leyen, Kaja von der - 2018 - Updated version

The empirical literature on occupational licensing finds standard monopoly effects of entry regulations: Less competition and economic rents for professionals. I exploit the natural experimental design of a change in the German crafts regulation in 2004, which removed the traditional licensing...

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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that those obtaining an urban hukou have better labour market...

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Worries across time and age in Germany : bringing together open- and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which … influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War, with a considerable number of … effects - worries about various topics such as health and the general economic situation increase with age. With increasing …

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