employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of …. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the …

-born men who were either unemployed, inactive or wage-earners in 1998. Economic outcome in 2002 is measured using income from …

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … through payments from people?s welfare accounts. The government would be able to redistribute income across people?s welfare … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …

This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. … increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a … that more quality-adjusted education does increase the income of the poor in addition to its positive effect on average …

reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without … wage indexation does not translate into significant poverty alleviation, which is due to the fact that the real value of …