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Designing Inclusion: Tools To Raise Low-End Pay And Employment In Private Enterprise By Edmund S. Phelps, Timothy Bartik Jan 2015

Designing Inclusion: Tools To Raise Low-End Pay And Employment In Private Enterprise By Edmund S. Phelps, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Moving Up Or Moving On: Who Advances In The Low-Wage Labor Market? By Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, And Julia I. Lane, Timothy Bartik Jan 2015

Moving Up Or Moving On: Who Advances In The Low-Wage Labor Market? By Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, And Julia I. Lane, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Generating Jobs: How To Increase Demand For Less-Skilled Workers, Richard B. Freeman, And Peter Gottschalk, Eds., Timothy Bartik Jan 2015

Generating Jobs: How To Increase Demand For Less-Skilled Workers, Richard B. Freeman, And Peter Gottschalk, Eds., Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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The Distributional Effects Of Local Labor Demand And Industrial Mix: Estimates Using Individual Panel Data, Timothy Bartik Jan 2015

The Distributional Effects Of Local Labor Demand And Industrial Mix: Estimates Using Individual Panel Data, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Low-Income Housing Development, Poverty Concentration, And Neighborhood Inequality, Matthew Freedman, Tamara Mcgavock Dec 2014

Low-Income Housing Development, Poverty Concentration, And Neighborhood Inequality, Matthew Freedman, Tamara Mcgavock

Matthew Freedman

Considerable debate exists about the merits of place-based programs that steer new development, and particularly affordable housing development, into low-income neighborhoods. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation in incentives to construct and rehabilitate rental housing across neighborhoods generated by Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program rules, we explore the impacts of subsidized development on local housing construction, poverty concentration, and neighborhood inequality. While a large fraction of rental housing development spurred by the program is offset by a reduction in the number of new unsubsidized units, housing investment under the LIHTC has measurable effects on the distribution of income within and across communities. …

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A Longitudinal Study Of Well-Being Of Older Europeans: Does Retirement Matter?, Raquel Fonseca, Arie Kapteyn, Jinkook Lee, Gema Zamarro, Kevin Feeney Dec 2013

A Longitudinal Study Of Well-Being Of Older Europeans: Does Retirement Matter?, Raquel Fonseca, Arie Kapteyn, Jinkook Lee, Gema Zamarro, Kevin Feeney

Gema Zamarro

We examine determinants of financial and subjective well-being, in particular poverty and depression, among older individuals in Europe. We do so using the 2004, 2006, and 2010 waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and estimating dynamic panel data and binary choice transition models. We find a number of common effects across financial and subjective well-being. Unemployment, disabilities, serious health conditions, lower education, being female, and not being married increase the probability of poverty or depression. Conversely, healthy individuals, those with higher levels of education, males, and married individuals have higher probabilities of exiting poverty or …

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Labor Standards, Economic Development, And International Trade, Gary Fields Sep 2011

Labor Standards, Economic Development, And International Trade, Gary Fields

Gary S Fields

[Excerpt] Higher real earnings at the fullest possible level of employment are the goals of those of us who work in the labor field. This paper addresses the role of labor standards in helping to achieve those goals. The United States government has two sets of interests in labor standards. The Department of Labor is supposed to "foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment." The Agency for International Development seeks to "help the poor toward a better life" in a …

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Earning Their Way Out Of Poverty (Outline And Sample Chapter), Gary Fields Nov 2009

Earning Their Way Out Of Poverty (Outline And Sample Chapter), Gary Fields

Gary S Fields

[Excerpt] According to the latest figures, today an estimated 3.1 billion people still live in absolute poverty, essentially all of them in the low- and middle-income countries of Asia, Latin America, and Africa and none of them in what are traditionally called the “developed economies” of North America (excluding Mexico), Western Europe, and selected parts of Asia and Oceania. This book is about how the poor live and work and what actions the world community could take to improve poor people’s earning opportunities as a central component of a multifaceted program aimed at ending the scourge of absolute economic misery.

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