The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less … clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the … crises: the 1994 Mexican Peso crisis and the Global Financial Crisis. We find that remittances lower inequality, and that …

capital, but it also creates a flow of remittances and increases international connections in the form of trade, FDI, and … technological transfers. This paper surveys our understanding of how migration affects growth and inequality through the impact on …

inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …

ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not … decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre …

claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …

which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious …

role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find … evidence of only a small decline in inequality over this period. The observed decline may be attributed to government transfers …