We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …

) Growth, inequality and poverty. …The objective of this paper is to review a number of issues related to poverty, while taking stock of the ongoing … research. Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the dynamics of …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …

in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …