We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter … measuring industrial gender wage gaps. …

Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is … gender wage gaps after netting out wage differentials due to differences in characteristics and their coefficients between … men and women. Furthermore, the proposed estimator is easy to implement, including hypothesis tests. We compare the …

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File …. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the … posterior probability that men's upward income mobility is greater than women's, we find that men have overall greater upward …

This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation … coefficients effects when decomposing differences in poverty incidence. The proposed method is implemented for studying differences … in poverty incidence between Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo using Living Standard Measurement Survey. -- poverty …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. -- poverty ; ethnicity ; decomposition …

In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty … Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its estimate and understanding its sources. Our contribution honours Gangopadhyay … poverty incidence. We highlight how far it can take us, and how it still leaves us far short of understanding much of what …