Download or read book Essays on Labor Supply and Poverty written by Md. Nizamul Islam and published by Goteborg University. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responses to Poverty written by Andrew Cowley Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout my work, I seek to understand policy issues that have consequences for poverty. Data limitations and non-random assignment of policy treatment make meaningful analysis challenging in what I argue are important areas of policy; to overcome the empirical challenge I combine clean natural experiments with rich administrative data to make progress in each literature. In this collection of essays I look at policy factors for three important determinants of economic wellbeing: labor supply, human capital formation, and labor demand. (1) Regarding labor demand, my coauthor and I study the impact of unemployment insurance benefit extensions on the employment of displaced workers. Using a sharp policy change and rich administrative data I procured, we are able to make considerable progress. (2) Teacher quality is the most powerful school-input in human capital formation. To understand how teacher pay affects the quality of teachers, I leverage a federal policy that provides additional compensation to teachers serving sufficiently poor schools. Using a regression discontinuity design and rich education data, I am able to provide further light on this pressing policy issue. (3) Finally, I assess the consequences of a payroll tax that firms pay on the labor demand. Because the tax increases after recessions, workers may bear the tax when the labor market is already weak. I use a discontinuity in the tax schedule and administrative UI data to estimate the consequences of the tax as a deterrent and the effect of the tax once raised.
Download or read book Land Labor and Rural Poverty written by Pranab K. Bardhan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on land economics, rural workers, agricultural credit, production relations and rural area poverty, with reference to India - examines peasant farmer labour supply, labour force participation of woman workers, measurement of unemployment, labour demand of agricultural workers, wages, labour-tying, and bonded labour, sharecropping and tenancy issues, social stratification and children mortality; discusses land ownership as an obstacle to irrigation-based agricultural development. Graphs, references, statistical tables.
Download or read book Three Essays on Obesity Poverty and the Labor Market written by Maximilian David Schmeiser and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation broadly examines the economic and health related consequences of individual behaviors, and their interaction with government programs. It is divided into three distinct chapters.
Download or read book Essays on Poverty Income Inequality and Health in Transition Economies written by Oleksiy Ivaschenko and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty Inequality and Development written by Alain de Janvry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work. Erik Thorbecke has made significant contributions to the microeconomic and the macroeconomic analysis of poverty, inequality and development, ranging from theory to empirics and policy. The essays in this volume display the same range. As a collection they make the fundamental point that deep understanding of these phenomena requires both the micro and the macro perspectives together, utilizing the strengths of each but also the special insights that come when the two are linked together. After an overview section which contains the introductory chapter and a chapter examining the historical roots of Erik Thorbecke's motivations, the essays in this volume are grouped into four parts, each part identifying a major strand of Erik's work—Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Micro Behavior and Market Failure, SAMs and CGEs, and Institutions and Development. The range of topics covered in the essays, written by leading authorities in their own areas, highlight the extraordinary depth and breadth of Erik Thorbecke's influence in research and policy on poverty, inequality and development. Acknowledgements These papers were presented at a conference in honor of Erik Thorbecke held at Cornell University on October 10-11, 2003. The conference was supported by the funds of the H. E. Babcock Chair in Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, and the T. H. Lee Chair in World Affairs at Cornell University.
Download or read book Employment and Development written by Gary S. Fields and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. Most of the poor in developing countries live in households in which people work, but still they are poor because the best available work pays so little. Employment and Development: How Work Can Lead From and Into Poverty questions how economic growth affects standards of living, how labor markets work in developing countries, and how different labor market policies affect well-being. Through a collection of essays, this book tackles major questions in development and labor economics. Who benefits from economic growth and who is hurt by economic decline? Why are distributional factors and labor market conditions improving in some countries but not in others? How do developing countries' labor markets work? How would labor market conditions change if different policies were to be put into effect? What are the welfare consequences of these changes? Through distributional analysis, Fields examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well-being, and through analysis of changing labor market conditions he examines employment and unemployment, employment composition, and labor earnings. By concentrating on the poor and understanding how the labor markets work for them and how their labor market earnings might be raised in response to different policy interventions, Fields addresses questions of first-order importance for human well-being.
Download or read book The Economic Analysis of Labor Supply written by Glen George Cain and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Labor and Family Economics written by HwaJung Choi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Inequality Vulnerability to Poverty International Migration and Labor Supply written by Evans Jadotte and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Poverty Inequality and Labor Market in India written by Yoko Kijima and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Download or read book Essays on Health Work Poverty and Income Inequality written by Elise Gould and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Labor Markets and Income Inequality in Less Developed Countries written by Ariel Fiszbein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays On Labor Market Interventions written by Baran Han and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyzes the economic, political, and social consequences of labor market interventions by different economic actors. What happens when consumers in the developed world intervene in the labor market of the developing world through boycott campaigns? How did a Temporary Workers Protection Act mandated by the Korean government shape the relations between a temporary workers' union and a regular workers' union? Does increase in minimum wages decrease household poverty? In this dissertation, we will see that well-intended action may make the targeted individuals worse-off. We will also see that in some cases such backlashes can lead to other opportunities. The first chapter "Boycott Activism and Its Welfare Consequences" provides a theoretical framework that can be used to analyze the overall effects of product boycotts. Consumers have the power to change the behavior of the firm through boycott campaigns. Their conscientious participation, however, may actually result in a reduction in welfare of the workers if the firm decides to alter its operation by lowering the wage expecting a demand decrease or by shutting down and moving elsewhere. The analysis emphasizes the importance of information, suggesting that activists set their goals by studying the labor market and coordinating with local groups rather than demanding what may seem righteous. The second chapter "Solidarity or Competition? A Tale of Two Unions" presents a case study of a coalition of two labor unions that led the 2007 Tempo- rary Workers Movement against the government's installment of a Temporary Workers Protection Act in South Korea. One union consisted mainly of regular workers and the other mainly of temporary workers. I argue that political opportunities combined with change in objectives with the progression of negotiation shaped the processes of coalition formation and dissolution. Qualitative and quantitative variance of resources, protest style, and membership characteristics across organizations acted as an incentive for joining forces at first, but hindered a common identity from forming and ultimately led to the breaking of the coalition. The third chapter "Poverty Effects of the Minimum Wage: The Role of Household Employment Composition" (with Gary Fields and Ravi Kanbur) provides an analytical framework to study the impact of minimum wages on a class of absolute poverty measures. The effects of a minimum wage increase depend on the values of key parameters (poverty line, poverty aversion, labor demand elasticity, and the starting level of the minimum wage), which demonstrates a need for a nuanced appreciation of poverty measures. Moreover, the relationship between poverty and the minimum wage is in general non-monotonic, so that local effects may be different from the effects of large changes in the minimum wage. .
Download or read book Three Essays in Labor Market Analysis written by Patrick M. Kline and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Globalization and Poverty written by Ann Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
