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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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Labour and migration in rural Vietnam
Narciso, Gaia - 2015
This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in … that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418579
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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19
Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020
Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold … greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since March. Causes include lower migration rates, less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424126
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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China
Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010
Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280210
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Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa
Nsabimana, Aimable; Pleace, Michelle; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024
Legal identity is an important aspect of securing access to public services, such as education, healthcare, and social protection services, including child support grants. In the South African context, in the post-apartheid period, many poor South Africans benefited from wellorganized civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054188
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Plague, war, and exodus? The effects of desert locust swarms on migration intentions in Yemen
Ghorpade, Yashodhan - 2024
conflict, and argue that the findings are consistent with distress migration. Despite an increase in the willingness to migrate … following locust outbreaks, very few people may actually be able to migrate as they lack the necessary resources. As migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054203
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The decline of the labour share in Mexico: 1990-2015
Ibarra, Carlos A.; Ros, Jaime - 2017
This paper studies the decline of the labour share in Mexico during the period 1990-2015. It calculates the wage share and alternative measures of the labour income share (which includes labour income of the self-employed) for the whole economy, the private business sector, and its major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943786
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Watts happening to work? The labour market effects of South Africa's electricity crisis
Bhorat, Haroon; Köhler, Timothy - 2024
Frequent electricity outages threaten to impede the benefits of expanded access achieved by many developing countries in recent decades. A large literature documents these negative effects, however almost none consider labour market effects. This paper merges labour force survey microdata with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548589
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Le Minh, Phuong; Marshalian, Michelle - 2020
In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on Tunisian labour force surveys from the past 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424158