Social Impact Bonds http://t.co/43koVqOPRW—
Political Line (@PoliticalLine) June 15, 2015
Doing business in the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) – World Bank rankings
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, currency unions, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, health and safety, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational regulation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unions, welfare reform Tags: cost of doing business, Eurosclerosis, Greece, Italy, PIGS, Portugal, Spain
Figure 1: Doing Business rankings, PIGS, 2014
Source: World Bank Doing Business 2015.
All in all, Italy and Greece are a dog of a place to enforce a contract. The long-suffering taxpayer is better off paying taxes in Greece than in Italy! Not surprisingly, trading across borders is the greatest strength in doing business in the PIGS. The European Union does have some benefits.
Figure 2: Doing Business rankings, Greece and Italy, 2014
Source: World Bank Doing Business 2015.
All in all, Italy and Greece are equally bad places to do business and Italy is much worse when it comes to taxes. About the only saving graces of Italy is the registration of property and the protection of minority interests in companies.
Figure 3: Doing Business rankings, Spain and Portugal, 2014
Source: World Bank Doing Business 2015.
Spain and in particular Portugal are much better places to do business than Italy and Greece.
Child poverty certainly didn’t go up after the 1996 federal welfare reforms
01 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996, child poverty, economics of fertility, single mothers, single parents, taxation and the labour supply, welfare reforms
Working population poverty is unchanged despite declines in elderly and child poverty #PovertyIs http://t.co/i7O7dTEUg2—
Political Line (@PoliticalLine) June 19, 2015
Poverty rates in Canada, UK and USA since 1985
28 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: British economy, Canada, top 1%
Despite 30 years of the ravages of neoliberalism, Reagan, Thatcher, and Blair, the whole lot, poverty has not gone up or down much at all.
Figure 1: relative poverty rate (% of persons living with less than 50% of equivalised disposable income), USA, UK and Canada
Source: In It Together – Why Less Inequality Benefits All – © OECD 2015
Food is now much smaller share of the average family’s budget than in the 60s
28 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, population economics, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, poverty line, poverty measurement, statistics
% of children living with 2 parents
23 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
% of children living with 2 parents
Israel 92%
Egypt 89
Turkey 88
Brazil 72
US 69
S Africa 36worldfamilymap.org/2014/e-ppendix… http://t.co/GveypeU6tK—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 22, 2014
Child poverty rates in single parent and couple families, Anglo-Saxon countries
22 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, child poverty, economics of the family, family poverty, Ireland, single mothers, single parents
Figure 1: Child poverty rates by family type, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD Family Database; Poverty thresholds are set at 50% of the median income of the entire population.
The impact of parental employment on child poverty in couple families, Anglo-Saxon countries
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, child poverty, economics of families, family poverty, Ireland, labour force participation, single parents
Figure 1: child poverty rates in couple families by employment status, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD Family Database; Poverty thresholds are set at 50% of the median income of the entire population.
The impact of single parent employment on child poverty rates, Anglo-Saxon countries
20 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, child poverty, economics of the family, family poverty, female labour force participation rates, Ireland, maternal labour supply, single mothers, single parents
Figure 1: Child poverty rate by employment status of single parent, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD Family Database; Poverty thresholds are set at 50% of the median income of the entire population.
Education and single motherhood
18 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: single mothers
There's a clear increase in single-parent households for parents who haven’t gone to college: on.wsj.com/1B1Xeuq http://t.co/eW2fH8bX5O—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 17, 2015
Trends in what drives single motherhood
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Divorce used to be biggest engine of single parenthood in America. No more. It's nonmarital childbearing cc@davidfrum http://t.co/J5yZtUukNW—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 10, 2015
In which Anglo-Saxon country is full-time work not enough to escape family poverty on the minimum wage?
07 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: earned income tax credit, poverty traps, single parents, taxation and the labour supply, welfare state
Figure 1: Weekly working hours needed at minimum-wage to move above a 50% relative poverty line after taxes, mandatory social or private contributions payable by workers, and family benefits for lone parent with two children, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2013
Which Anglo-Saxon country has the largest after-tax pay increase after a minimum wage increase?
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, welfare reform Tags: poverty traps, single parents, taxation and the labour supply, welfare reform, welfare state
Figure 1: Net gain after income taxes, Social Security contributions and benefit reductions after a 5% minimum wage increase for a lone parent family
New Zealand does rather well on many measures of poverty and inequality
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, living wage, welfare state
Tough times? On #MayDay, compare % of low-paid #workers in yr country bit.ly/1EFrrV7 #LabourDay http://t.co/jNBrmjcom9—
(@OECD) May 01, 2015
Working for minimum wage? See how your country compares, then read oe.cd/mw2015 ( PDF) #wages http://t.co/DJsLYawtfw—
(@OECD) May 06, 2015
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