'Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction' examines the link between poverty and labor market participation and the … economic years' before the financial crisis, this book asks the complex policy question: Why did poverty not decrease during … Europe's prosperity prior to the crisis? Although this volume is not the first to observe worrying trends in poverty or …

alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …

report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty. More generally, we find that both state and federal EZs appear to be endogenously selected based on prior changes in … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs …

In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor … income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008?13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing … policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty. With close to 70 percent of the population under age 30 years, labor markets …

the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating employment promotes social stability. Skills training and … microfinance have shown little impact on poverty or stability, especially relative to program cost. In contrast, injections of … capital -- cash, capital goods, or livestock -- seem to stimulate self-employment and raise long term earning potential, often …

a nexus between poverty unorganized sector employment and state's apathy towards the workers. Finally the paper reflects …

alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the disaggregated occupational choices … suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in manufacturing and services, with no …

‘Poverty and the Labour Market in Indonesia: Employment Trends across the Wealth Distribution', is among Indonesia …'s first papers on the relationship between poverty and the labour market. It provides a detailed analysis of employment … indicators (labour force participation rates, hours worked, and type and sector of employment) for the period 2000-2012 across …

explore targeting, poverty and employability effects of workfare before 2002 based on the permanent household survey (EPH). We … beneficial short run poverty effects. However, the long run effects of the program are not obvious due to selection on treatment …