This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

Kyrgyzstan". -- survey data ; poverty ; labor force participation ; Central Asia …

and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. -- trade ; FDI ; employment ; poverty … employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI …

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

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi … employment away from employment-for-pay to self-employment. Therefore, the effect on total employment is ambiguous. OLS and fixed … effects regression are used to examine separately self-employment and employment-for-pay between three groups of borrowers …

In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical … economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …