inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct positive impact on family income and may therefore help to reduce … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … the relationship between the minimum wage and household income finds: a) increases in legal minimum wages increase the … probability that a poor worker's family will move out of poverty, and b) increases in legal minimum wages are more likely to …