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Working Paper No. 939October 18, 2019
The Macroeconomic Loss Due to Violence against Women and Girls
AbstractViolence against women and girls (VAWG) is a widely recognized human rights violation with serious consequences for the health and well-being of women and their families. However, the wider ramifications of…more
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Research Project ReportSeptember 17, 2019
Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Impacts of Improving Physical and Social Infrastructure
AbstractFeminist economics has long emphasized the role of physical and social infrastructure as determinants of the time women spend on household production (the provision of unpaid domestic services and care)….more
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Research Project ReportApril 01, 2019
Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care in Kyrgyz Republic
AbstractExpansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for all is a matter of the choices made regarding the allocation of public resources. As such, it is as much…more
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Research Project ReportAugust 08, 2018
The Measurement of Time and Consumption Poverty in Ghana and Tanzania
AbstractTime constraints that stem from the overlapping domains of paid and unpaid work are of central concern to the debates surrounding the economic development of developing countries in general and…more
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Working Paper No. 882January 13, 2017
Investing in Social Care Infrastructure and Employment Generation
AbstractThis paper examines the aggregate and gender employment impact of expanding the early childhood care and preschool education (ECCPE) sector in Turkey and compares it to the expansion of the…more
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Working Paper No. 871August 09, 2016
Simulations of Employment for Individuals in LIMTCP Consumption-poor Households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
AbstractNew methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm…more
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One-Pager No. 50October 22, 2015
A Public Investment Priority for Job Creation in Turkey
AbstractThis one-pager presents the key findings and policy recommendations of the research project report The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty: The…more
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Research Project ReportSeptember 22, 2015
The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty
AbstractProduced in partnership with the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and UN Women, this report examines the demand-side rationale for a public investment in the social care sector—specifically,…more
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Working Paper No. 836April 13, 2015
Direct Estimates of Food and Eating Production Function Parameters for 2004–12 Using an ATUS/CE Synthetic Dataset
AbstractThis paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of substitution between food expenditures and time and in the goods intensity parameter in the household food…more
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Research Project ReportAugust 28, 2014
The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty in Korea
AbstractThis report presents findings from a joint project of the Levy Economics Institute and the Korea Employment Information Service, with the central objective of developing a measure of time and…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 136August 28, 2014
Can Child-care Subsidies Reduce Poverty?
AbstractIn partnership with the Korea Employment Information Service, Senior Scholar Ajit Zacharias and Research Scholars Thomas Masterson and Kijong Kim investigate the complex issues of gender, changing labor market conditions,…more
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Working Paper No. 806May 30, 2014
The Great Recession and Unpaid Work Time in the United States
AbstractPoverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due to the role of household production as a coping strategy in mitigating…more
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One-Pager No. 45January 13, 2014
Έλλειμμα χρόνου και κρυφή φτώχεια στην Κορέα
AbstractΤα επίσημα ποσοστά φτώχειας στην Κορέα και σε άλλες χώρες αγνοούν το γεγονός ότι η άμισθη παραγωγή των νοικοκυριών συμβάλλει στην εκπλήρωση των υλικών αναγκών και των επιθυμιών που είναι…more
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One-Pager No. 45January 13, 2014
Time Deficits and Hidden Poverty in Korea
AbstractOfficial poverty lines in Korea and other countries ignore the fact that unpaid household production contributes to the fulfillment of material needs and wants that are essential to attaining a…more
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Working Paper No. 691October 12, 2011
Unpaid and Paid Care
AbstractTransforming care for children and the elderly from a private to a public domain engenders a series of benefits to the economy that improve our standard of living. We assess…more
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One-Pager No. 11August 05, 2011
Investing in Social Care Delivery
AbstractThere is little mystery to explaining our current high levels of unemployment. The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently revised its figures on GDP growth, and revealed that not only was…more
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Working Paper No. 671May 19, 2011
Public Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care
AbstractThis paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them…more
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Working Paper No. 610August 13, 2010
Investing in Care
AbstractMassive job losses in the United States, over eight million since the onset of the “Great Recession,” call for job creation measures through fiscal expansion. In this paper we analyze…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 108February 01, 2010
Why President Obama Should Care About “Care”: An Effective and Equitable Investment Strategy for Job Creation
AbstractIn his State of the Union address President Obama acknowledged that “our most urgent task is job creation”—that a move toward full employment will lay the foundation for long-term economic…more
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Policy NoteJune 16, 2009
Special Report: Who Gains from President Obama’s Stimulus Package … And How Much?
AbstractIn this Special Report, Levy scholars Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Kijong Kim provide a preliminary assessment of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a package of transfers…more
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Working Paper No. 568June 04, 2009
Distributional Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
AbstractOver the last two decades, those at the bottom of the income scale have seen their incomes stagnate, while those at the top have seen theirs skyrocket; without intervention, the…more
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Working Paper No. 552December 16, 2008
Hypothetical Integration in a Social Accounting Matrix and Fixed-price Multiplier Analysis
AbstractThis study proposes a simple modification to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) in order to analyze the multiplier effects of a new sector. A different input composition, or technology, of…more
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Research Project Report No. 34January 02, 2008
Joint Project of UNDP and Levy Institute on Public Employment
AbstractJoint UNDP—Levy Institute Study Focuses on Employment Guarantee Strategies The recent financial turmoil has brought with it worldwide acceptance of the fact that, when markets fail, government intervention is indispensable….more