earnings and transfers, pensions, and other nonlabor income sources. The results show that for the majority of countries in the … earnings at the bottom of the income distribution. In particular, most of the reduction in inequality can be attributed to an … increase in earnings per hour for the bottom of the income distribution. The paper also contributes to the literature on …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … countries in the sample, labor income is the most important contributor to changes in poverty. In ten of the countries, labor … income explains more than half of the change in moderate poverty; in another four, it accounts for more than 40 percent of …

-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important contributor was the growth in labor income …This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and … generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics and income from labor and non …