relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances on poverty alleviation and income distribution are found to be stronger when the more rigorous, counterfactual income …We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on …

different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. … distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … and inequality- by applying microeconometric decompositions techniques. In particular, we simulate the equivalized …

the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since … inequality has remained very high. …

significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …