mostly specific groups of the population. Employment and earnings opportunities are key determinants of poverty risks. The …Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other …

the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased … inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical … impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction …

to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers …, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …