We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the … Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of … in urban poverty. …

employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …