Similar Search Results

Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017

The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to … leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943695

Migration's Income and Poverty Impact has been Underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2007

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778517

Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631514

Are migrants in large cities underpaid? : evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Pham Minh, Thai - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 20, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574797

Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People's Republic of China

Zhang, Yuan - 2016

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China (PRC), this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983360

A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting Humanitarian Assistance Among Forcibly Displaced Populations

Lyons, Angela; Montoya Castano, Alejandro; Kass-Hanna, … - 2023

Increasing trends in forced displacement and poverty are expected to intensify in coming years. Data science approaches can be useful for governments and humanitarian organizations in designing more robust and effective targeting mechanisms. This study applies machine learning techniques and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345129

Poverty Dynamics in Nairobi’s Slums : Testing for True State Dependence and Heterogeneity Effects

Faye, Ousmane; Islam, Nizamul; Zulu, Eliya Msiyaphazi - 2011

We investigate the factors underlying poverty transitions in Nairobi’s slums focusing on whether differences in characteristics make some individuals more prone to enter poverty and persist in, or whether past experience of poverty matters on future poverty situations. Answers to these issues...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175612

The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences

Immel, Lea - 2021

Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484032

A Note on the Contribution of Natural Population Growth and Migration to the Aggregate Poverty Change

Chatti, Rim - 2013

This note extends the Ravallion and Huppi (1991) aggregate poverty change decomposition. It splits up the contribution of population share variation to overall poverty change into two distinct components: the effect of population shift between sectors is indeed isolated from the difference of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061244

Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)

Maletta, Hector E. - 2014

Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182912