Is a move up the job ladder an escape from poverty?

Samuel Ampaw, Michael Danquah, Rajesh Raj Natarajan and Kunal Sen

No wp-2024-84, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using panels of labour force surveys from Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and India and a recent work status classification, we provide an in-depth analysis of labour mobility up or down the job ladder. This classification allows us to observe job transition possibilities across six work status groups. We examine factors driving upward mobility and probe its association with poverty. We find that people seldom transition from one work status to another across all countries. The prevalence of downward mobility is similar to upward mobility in the four African countries and India.

Keywords: Labour market; Job mobility; job ladder; Poverty; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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