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El trabajo que se presenta enseguida pretende contribuir a la producción de conocimiento acerca de cómo la pobreza es vivida por las personas en esa condición, en la Costa Rica contemporánea. El ensayo es un avance de una investigación cualitativa cuya principal fuente son las entrevistas...
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El presente artículo pretende evidenciar para el caso costarricense, la situación del ?Indicador de Ocupación en Condiciones de Equidad? propuesto dentro de la modalidad de trabajo decente de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. En este sentido, se examinará el cumplimiento o no, del...
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Este artículo reflexiona sobre la forma en que las Administraciones Pacheco de la Espriella y Arias Sánchez han abordado el tema de la pobreza, como una política pública de la agenda política nacional, retomando algunos aportes conceptuales desde la ciencia política. El artículo comprende...
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This book is a valuable asset for anyone seeking to make sense of economic news or, more importantly, to place it in a broader context.
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This comment responds to Shaefer and Rivera (2018), a recent working paper that criticizes some of our published work on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States.
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More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and several of the largest misclassified groups appear to be at least middle class based on measures of material well-being. In contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by...
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Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the homeless relative to shelters. In this paper, I use community-level data over the period 2007-2014 in the United States to estimate short and long run associations between...
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We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our...
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