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 …

-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of …

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 …

We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …

capture resource-based transmission of culture. Third, overall remittances send from the donor countries are used as proxy for … recipient countries, and, last but not least, (c) larger remittances sent from donor countries strengthen the growth effects of …

The labor market effects of remittances have long been examined in the empirical literature. To date, the results have … been mixed: some authors observe a negative association between remittances and unemployment while others report that … remittances increase unemployment. This paper empirically examines the impact of remittances on unemployment using macroeconomic …

We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …