This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …

We analyse potential dynamic benefits for a firm from having the option of adopting informal status. Informality may be … parameter values, suggesting a potential dynamic case for government support of informal firms. Informality may alternatively … profitability is disappointing, it can switch to informality. However, this result obtains for a range of parameter values so narrow …

city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

society. Comparative analysis reveals that certain endowments exist in societies that experience a ‘persistence of inequality …-tropical products’ to contribute to the rise and persistence of an elite, and consequently inequality. The focus shifts to the …

growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …