poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …