avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …

and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect. …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

employment in Indonesia. While effects on average income per employee are ambiguous due to industry- and sectoral …We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy …

Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. -- Costa Rica ; Latin America ; migration ; earnings ; inequality ; poverty …

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 …

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 …