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Canelas, Carla - 2015

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

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Welfare and the depth of informality : evidence from five African countries

Egger, Eva-Maria; Poggi, Cecilia; Gutierrez Rufrancos, … - 2021

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …

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Marginalized agency or agency at the margins : domestic workers and informality

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Lavee, Einat - 2025

This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs … informality. Using rich administrative data, we identify and characterize domestic workers and their labor market histories and … estimate the prevalence and degree of informality. We complement this analysis with a qualitative analysis of interviews with …

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Living La Vida Loca? : remote investing in Latin America, 1869-1929

Campbell, Gareth; Gallagher, Áine; Grossman, Richard S. - 2024

Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the UK, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this separation between...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...

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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe

Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023

This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...

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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe

Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023

This paper studies the role and performance of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection during periods of crisis. To achieve this goal, the paper expands its analytical focus to include other tiers of social protection, in particular upstream...

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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....

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Dependence or constraints? : cash transfers, labor supply and the process of development

Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera - 2017

In this study, I use the timing and eligibility criteria of a large-scale conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools to identify the efect of the program on adults’ labor supply. I find that adult females increase their labor supply due to the program, mostly through...

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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo

Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023

Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....

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