The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …

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

The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances …), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a … sizeable positive correlation. The effect of remittances on well-being varies with the socio- economic characteristics of …

East Germany for men aged 20-60 rose by 118%, while various inequality measures indicate an increase in wage inequality of … 25 to 61%. This paper studies the causes of this growth in wages and the changes in wage inequality, the first two … growth and inequality change in East Germany. Most of the increases occur at the beginning of the transition. We compare our …

during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and … scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much … poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We …