weight and may reduce the effect of social origins on occupational destinations. Women and migrants present the highest rates … of upward mobility and greater equality in labor opportunities, compared to men and non-migrants, respectively. No …

Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants … around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … and gender composition of migrants, whether or not young migrants move alone or with a parent or spouse, their …

This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international …

conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution. This underestimation appears driven in part by potential migrants … placing too much weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from …

self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven …

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …

This note details simulations of the distributional impacts of the 2009 financial crisis on households in Latvia. It … show that Latvia experienced a sharp rise in poverty, widening of the poverty gap, and a rise in income inequality due to …, which substantially mitigated household welfare. The authors also simulate the impact of Latvia's Emergency Social Safety …

(Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey), this paper applies panel data estimators and Juhn-Murphy Pierce …