Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity …