Essays about: "Labor Income Process"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Labor Income Process.

1. 1. The Marriage the Merrier: Examining the Role of Family Labor Supply in Consumption Inequality

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Filip Stubbfält; [2022]
   Keywords : Economic Inequality; Family Labor Supply; Consumption Smoothing;

   Abstract : Using data from the Panel Study of Income dynamics between 2009 and 2019, I first document that the disconnect between consumption and earnings inequality holds for married households but not single households. Married households seem to behave consistently with the Permanent Income Hypothesis, smoothing out their consumption based on their expected lifetime incomes. READ MORE

3. 2. Poverty and Inequality Reduction in the Case of Bolivia: What Has Impacted the Reduction during Evo Morales's Administration Period?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Alisa Buchstab; [2020]
   Keywords : Pro-poor growth; poverty; inequality; social spending; Bolivia; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Bolivia has experienced a drastic decline in inequality and poverty since 2000. It coincided with the administrative period of Evo Morales between 2006 and 2019. Hence, it is debated whether poverty reduction was mainly driven by economic growth alongside the commodity boom in the 2000s or by policy implementations during Morales’s presidency. READ MORE

4. 3. (Ine)quality of air and water - A political ecology approach to a multilevel analysis of individual- and country-level factors impacting people’s experience of environmental quality in their community

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

   Author : Josefin Stagge; [2019]
   Keywords : air quality; water quality; environmental justice; political ecology; uneven development; world-systems analysis; multilevel linear regression; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine inequalities in terms of air and water quality in a cross-national study comparing determinants at both individual and national level using a subjective measurement. This study explores how uneven development and economic inequalities within and between countries affect people’s experience of environmental problems (i. READ MORE

5. 4. Increasingly unequal? Convergence of real wages in the EU

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Edin; [2018]
   Keywords : real wage convergence; sigma convergence; beta convergence; european union; time-series convergence; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The European union has taken steps to remove obstacles for labor mobility and per neoclassical economic theory this should lead to an equalisation of the real wages through an increase in labor mobility. Real wages is an important indicator of welfare and the equalisation process is called convergence by economists. READ MORE

6. 5. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Process Automation in German Manufacturing GVCs

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Hieke Bruinsma; [2018]
   Keywords : automation; environmental degradation; energy intensity; global value chains; IO-analysis; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Both automation and climate change are important topics on today’s policy agenda. Automation is often argued to have environmental benefits in terms of energy efficiency, however, no attempt has yet been made to empirically address the relation between automation and energy consumption. READ MORE