This paper investigates potential measurement error biases in estimated poverty transition matrices. We compare … expenditure data magni?es economic mobility in and out of poverty. Roughly 44% of households initially in poverty at time t??1 are … found to be out of poverty at time t using expenditure data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). However …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms …-based policies aimed at increasing educational attainment would have substantial impacts on poverty reduction, but muted effects on … distribution of earnings and for the distribution of household income per capita. A large share of the poverty reducing effect of …

two decades. The Gini coefficient hovered just above 0.59 in both years, and poverty incidence (with respect to a poverty … increase in extreme urban poverty. Using a micro-simulation-based decomposition methodology which endogenizes labour incomes … in the structure of occupations and labor force participation (all of which tended to increase poverty), and on the other …

This paper provides an overview of both the current structure of poverty in Brazil through a detailed poverty profile … and of the aggregate dynamics of poverty in the last two decades. We then assess a number of government policies and … programs which are either specifically designed to reduce poverty or have a direct bearing on current or future social welfare …

This paper combines two complementary data sets to present a disaggregated spatial profile of poverty in the Brazilian …

current poverty and inequality levels. …

calibrated to Brazil, once the cash transfer program is adopted, wealth inequality and social welfare increase, poverty decreases …