Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …

report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty. More generally, we find that both state and federal EZs appear to be endogenously selected based on prior changes in … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in …

preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …

developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …

earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills … with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

Should a developing economy, such as India, have a macroeconomic policy framework that is identical to an advanced … countries do not. They also, often, need to achieve a structural transformation by moving labour away from agriculture. These …