Abstract We provide a critique of the standard methodology for inequality measurement, which makes welfare comparisons between households by deflating household income and consumption with an equivalence scale. argue that this leads to support tax/transfer policies significantly disadvantage low middle second earners—predominantly women. Its main limitations are it takes overly-simplistic appro...

Understanding couple instability is a topic of social and economic relevance. This paper investigates how the risk dissolution relates to efforts solve disagreements. We study whether marital locus control (a noncognitive trait that captures individual's perception over problems within couple) associated with prevalence relationship in past. implement list experiment using count-item technique ...

Can the Spanish government generate more tax revenue by making personal income taxes progressive? To answer this question, we build a life-cycle economy with uninsurable labor productivity risk and endogenous supply. Individuals face progressive on capital incomes proportional that capture social security, corporate income, consumption taxes. Our is yes, but not much. A reform increases for ind...

110 The poor in Europe and Central Asia cite loss of stable income as the overwhelming factor associated with poverty. Poverty is largely the result of bad labor market outcomes, such as the loss of a paying job, the failure to be paid for work completed, or insufficient income because of a lack of the skills needed to compete in the new, more market-oriented economy. For those who are not able...

Title of Dissertation: PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR. Habiba Djebbari, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Anna Alberini, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor Jeffrey A. Smith, Department of Economics How does the distribution of power within the household affect the nutrition of its members? In 1998, the largest social program in rural Mexico (PR...

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...

Disaster risks are becoming more prevalent in densely populated spaces such as informal settlements a result of unplanned urbanisation. Several scholars ascribe this condition to inadequate awareness spatial planning tools among settlers, these influence where and how they construct their buildings for disaster risk reduction. This study aimed at assessing the level reduction Mopani District, S...

Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created several challenges including financial burdens that may result in mental health conditions. This study was undertaken to gauge difficulties during the and gain an insight into wage earners' health. Method: cross-sectional conducted through online survey. A t total of 707 individual Bangladeshi earners were enrolled between 20 30 May 2020. qu...


 Since the world's ageing population is expanding quickly, retirement planning has been identified as one of top concerns all nations. As a developing country, Malaysia also touched by this issue. Particularly, among low income earners frequently contested because lack available financial resources them. Therefore, study aims to investigates factors influencing workers at Northern Region,...