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The unintended impact of housing provident fund on income inequality in urban China
China Economic Quarterly International, 2021 We use the China Household Income Project (CHIP) data to evaluate the impact of the Housing Provident Fund (HPF) on income inequality in urban China. We find that urban residents differ significantly in their accessibility to and intensity of utilization
Yunhe Lu, Haiyuan Wan
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Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2020 This study has explored the welfare impact of Benazir Income Support Program’s (BISP) unconditional cash transfers on women empowerment. The program was initiated in 2011 by the government of Pakistan.
Tehmeena Iqbal +2 more
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
, 1996 This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
Klaus Deininger, L. Squire
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In-work Poverty in Russia: How Determinants Have Changed over the 20 years?
Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2021 This paper examines the determinants of in-work poverty and estimates the probability of falling into poverty for various groups of the Russian population in 1998 and 2018.
Vasiliy A. Anikin +1 more
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Determinants of household consumption in Serbia: Methodological approaches and empirical results [PDF]
Marketing (Beograd. 1991), 2021 The subject of this paper is to quantify the impact of income (household income) which is a key economic variable that determines the framework for personal consumption of households. In addition to income, the influence of household regional affiliation,
Hanić Hasan, Bugarčić Milica
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
, 2007 The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income and ...
A. Clark, P. Frijters, M. Shields
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Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income
Journal of Political Economy, 1989 A paradigm is presented in which both the extent of financial intermediation and the rate of economic growth are endogenously determined. Financial intermediation promotes growth because it allows a higher rate of return to be earned on capital, and ...
Jeremy Greenwood, Boyan Jovanovic
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2016 Background: The establishment of home-based care (HBC) programmes in developing countries has resulted in a shift of burden from hospitals to communities where palliative care is provided by voluntary home-based caregivers.
Ntsieni S. Mashau +2 more
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Income, income, or income? The effects of different income measures on health in a national survey [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2010 The effects of six income types (household post-government income, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-weighted household post-government income, individual net income, corrected monthly household income and household net income from wages) on subjective health were compared in order to examine to what extent their effects are ...
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International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2019 This article presents my personal reflections on the process of conducting fieldwork as part of my PhD research into participant recruitment in South Korea. I discuss the challenges and negotiations I faced during my PhD fieldwork.
YoonKyung Kwak
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