People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty … inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed … political participation only as a result of losing their job, nor do those affected by poverty do so due to loss of income …

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor … that poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor governance were significant causes of Niger Delta militancy …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

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

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

more generous welfare system contributed to reducing poverty. Employment security, however, appears to be linked to the … presence of higher levels of income inequality after the crisis. …

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 …