correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …

-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the … through which non-farm employment might improve the welfare of rural households. Although participation in non-farm activities …

alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …

In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor … income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008?13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing … policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty. With close to 70 percent of the population under age 30 years, labor markets …

employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited … interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …

, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in … manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … states show limited change in unorganized sector employment shares. Fourth, the degree to which localized unorganized …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

access off-farm employment and exit poverty because they are more nearby. It concludes with a call for greater consideration … urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to …