a column by Orazio Attanasio, Peter Levell, Hamish Low and Virginia Sánchez Marcos for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Economists disagree on the size of labour supply elasticities.
The column uses a model of female labour supply to show that there is substantial heterogeneity in both cross section and over the business cycle. It is not possible to think about labour supply elasticity as a unique structural parameter.
To understand the consequences of income tax changes, for example, we need to be explicit about whose tax is changing.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The Heterogeneous Nature of Urban Poor Families
an article by Rodrigo Salcedo and Alejandra Rasse (Universidad Católica del Maule, República de Chile) published in City & Community Volume 11 Issue 1 (March 2012)
Abstract
This paper addresses the scholarly debate on cultural homogeneity or heterogeneity of urban poor families. While authors such as Lewis (1959) or Wacquant (2000; 2001) claim that structural disadvantages are linked to a particular type of identity or culture, others such as Hannerz (1969), Anderson (1999; 2002), or Portes (Portes and Manning, 1986; Portes and Jensen, 1989) believe that it is possible to find different behaviors, expectations, decision-making processes, and outcomes among people living in seemingly identical structural conditions (Small et al., 2010).
Using Santiago, Chile, as a case study, we differentiate five different cultures or identities among the poor. Those identities seem to be the product of different historical and political circumstances, as well as of different types of public policies. The paper ends with a discussion of the need for poverty reduction policies to consider these differences among the poor.
Hazel’s comment:
There are those in government in the UK who need to be made aware that “the poor” is not a label for a homegenous mass of people any more than the old or the ill.
Abstract
This paper addresses the scholarly debate on cultural homogeneity or heterogeneity of urban poor families. While authors such as Lewis (1959) or Wacquant (2000; 2001) claim that structural disadvantages are linked to a particular type of identity or culture, others such as Hannerz (1969), Anderson (1999; 2002), or Portes (Portes and Manning, 1986; Portes and Jensen, 1989) believe that it is possible to find different behaviors, expectations, decision-making processes, and outcomes among people living in seemingly identical structural conditions (Small et al., 2010).
Using Santiago, Chile, as a case study, we differentiate five different cultures or identities among the poor. Those identities seem to be the product of different historical and political circumstances, as well as of different types of public policies. The paper ends with a discussion of the need for poverty reduction policies to consider these differences among the poor.
Hazel’s comment:
There are those in government in the UK who need to be made aware that “the poor” is not a label for a homegenous mass of people any more than the old or the ill.
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