Monday, March 25, 2024
Forced displacement often forces children out of school and into employment at a young age. This disruption in their human capital formation leads to poverty in the long term. This column demonstrates that unconditional cash transfers provided to...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Evidence from Mauritius shows the consequences of losing a formal job in a labour market characterised by high rates of informal employment are significant. Unemployment benefits help mitigate these effects, while generating only small disincentive...
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Many studies have investigated the dynamics of poverty and consumption in developing countries, but still little is known about the distribution of household net worth. This column documents the persistence of extreme wealth inequalities in South Africa...
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Economists have long debated whether extensions to unemployment insurance benefit durations help or hinder the labour market. Using US administrative microdata, this column shows that the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits has a positive...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Many governments increased temporary sick-leave benefits in the wake of COVID-19, but the benefits are due to expire after a certain time. This column looks back at a 2012 policy change in Spain which radically altered the generosity of paid sick leave...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Economic inequality in the US has ballooned since the early 1980s. Wage and salary growth at the top of the earnings distribution has significantly outpaced that at the bottom and middle, resulting in decades of unabated upward redistribution of income....