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There is some indirect evidence that child labor is affected by market imperfections. This paper provides a theoretical model to discuss the effect of improvements on the labor market, when households cannot rely on neither the land nor the credit markets. The predictions differ by land...
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The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...
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This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using … zero labor income effect. Additionally, we find that poverty indicators decreased after national trade liberalization (both … poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two …
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processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between … tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in both developed and developing countries. Gains from trade are generally … trade, poverty and inequality by analyzing the impact of trade liberalization through two main transmission channels: prices …
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Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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households to a vicious circle of poverty. However, we do find evidence that ganyu is used as an ex-post coping strategy in the …
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Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …
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