This paper highlights some of the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of agricultural market liberalization in Africa through the case study of Tanzania. Based on qualitative research and survey data collected in the country in 1995--96, this article suggests that one of the results of economic...

I study trade-induced transitional dynamics by estimating a structural dynamic equilibrium model of the Brazilian labor market. The model features a multi-sector economy with overlapping generations, heterogeneous workers, endogenous accumulation of sector-specific experience and costly...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...