, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non …-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …. While this unambiguously supports the poverty alleviation role of remittances hypothesized in the literature, the …

subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty … into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and residual components are described. In parametric approaches the dynamics … measures and expectations about their impacts on earnings inequality and poverty reductions. …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …