Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach

Demographics, labor income, public transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the observed chan...

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Main Authors: Azevedo, Joao Pedro, Inchauste, Gabriela, Olivieri, Sergio, Saavedra, Jaime, Winkler, Hernan
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/04/17599289/labor-income-responsible-poverty-reduction-decomposition-approach
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15552