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3 publications found, searching for 'Andrew Bershadker '

• Public Policy Brief No. 46 November 08, 1998

  Self-Reliance and Poverty

  Andrew Bershadker, and Robert Haveman
  Abstract

  The United States’ official poverty measure defines the poor in terms of a family’s actual, yearly cash income relative to an estimate of the income needed to sustain a minimally acceptable standard of living. An alternative definition, designed to reflect a family’s ability to achieve economic independence, would instead rest on its capacity for generating […]

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• Working Paper No. 247 August 01, 1998

  “Inability to Be Self-Reliant” As an Indicator of US Poverty

  Andrew Bershadker, and Robert Haveman
  Abstract

  The official poverty measure is based on the premise that all families should have sufficient income from either their own efforts or government support to boost them above a family-size-specific threshold. Given the current policy emphasis on self-reliance and a smaller role for government, this measure appears to have less policy relevance now than in […]

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• Working Paper No. 180 December 01, 1996

  The Utilization of Human Capital in the US, 1975–1992

  Andrew Bershadker, Lawrence Buron, and Robert Haveman
  Abstract

  The experience that comes with age and the productive capacity of youth are both assets widely underused in the American labor market, according to Research Associate Robert Haveman and co-authors Lawrence Buron and Andrew Bershadker of the University of Wisconsin. To measure the use of American labor, the authors developed an indicator called the capacity […]

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