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Hours Constraints and In‐Work Poverty
Author(s) -
Brown Sarah,
Pudney Stephen
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.0307-3378.2005.00225.x
Subject(s) - poverty , flexibility (engineering) , propensity score matching , matching (statistics) , work (physics) , economics , econometrics , labour economics , economic growth , mathematics , statistics , engineering , mechanical engineering , management
We develop a new approach to modelling the impact of personal characteristics on the extent of poverty, using propensity score matching methods. This is used to evaluate the contribution of hours constraints to poverty, as revealed in UK and US datasets. The results reveal a significant difference, consistent with the existence of greater labour market flexibility in the US.