1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …