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inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …
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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …
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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...
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their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …
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In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …
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In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...
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Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...
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