This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term...

[Excerpt] Economic mobility has not been widely studied in developing countries until very recently owing...

This paper asks how much we should care about changes in Lorenz curves and standard...

Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum...

[Excerpt] Analysis of the inter-industry earnings differentials revealed that these differentials were quite small by...

[Excerpt] I want to put forward three propositions to you based on decades of work...

Excerpt] Richard Brown (2006) has written that the interpretation of the 1954 Lewis model that...

[Excerpt] What is personnel economics? Despite its name (non-economists may be put off by the...

This paper presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies...

[Excerpt] The labour market is central in determining individual and household well-being in South Africa....

[Excerpt] This is a timely book about the labour market effects of globalization – specifically,...

This paper asks how the Lewis model might be viewed from the perspective of economic...

Welcoming the shift to outcomes which he perceives in the ILO's focus on decent work,...

[Excerpt] This study presents the main results of a larger, more technical report (Fields and...

[Excerpt] This is a practical and useful volume on labor standards in today’s highly globalized...

We analyze household income dynamics using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Spain and...

[Excerpt] This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating equations...

[Excerpt] In this paper, we analyse the dynamics of household per capita incomes using longitudinal...

[Excerpt] This volume enables researchers to learn about some of the latest research findings on...

South Africa is experiencing a major employment problem that includes not only unemployment, but also...

[Excerpt] Michael Lipton has devoted a long career to studying and fighting poverty in the...

[Excerpt] Since 1980, however, family income inequality in Taiwan has risen slowly but steadily. In...

[Excerpt] John Turner and Noriyasu Watanabe have written numerous articles and books on pensions and...

[Excerpt] What can be done to raise the living standards of working people around the...

[Excerpt] This theoretical discussion of the migration transition is Asia develops a framework to understand...

[Excerpt] This slim and eminently readable volume presents the 1990 Edwin O. Reischauer lectures delivered...

[Excerpt] This book by R. M. Sundrum, a professor at the Australian National University and...

[Excerpt] This book seeks "to bring together, in a single body, the many strands of...

[Excerpt] Have workers in the newly industrializing countries (NIC's) of Asia benefited from the rapid...

[Excerpt] Amartya Sen has made fundamental contributions to the study of distributional aspects of economic...

[Excerpt] The central focus of this book is the labor force in the context of...

[Excerpt] This book consists of six essays on Social Security. Charles Meyer leads off with...

[Excerpt] Sen will not let us forget that development economics is a branch of social...

[Excerpt] The present volume, by addressing technology choice and employment in multinational enterprises (MNEs), adds...

[Excerpt] The U.S. Social Security system faces serious financial difficulties in both the short and...

[Excerpt] The system of publicly-provided old age pensions, known in the United States as "Social...

This paper examines the role of economic factors in determining retirement behavior using a unique...

[Excerpt] The slant of this volume will not appeal to everyone. Consider the following: "During...

This is a review and comparison of seven books dealing with income distribution and economic...

[Excerpt] This paper builds upon earlier work of mine which explored the determinants of population...

[Excerpt] Regional inequality is of interest for a variety of reasons: planning development policies aimed...

[Excerpt] In the 1970s social scientists from all disciplines became aware that an understanding of...

[Excerpt] Before the appearance of my 1977 paper in this Review, it was widely thought...

[Excerpt] This paper presents new evidence on the determinants of place-to-place migration in the United...

[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to reexamine one of these two challenges, namely,...

[Excerpt] This is a paper by a labour economist for trade specialists. It is written...

[Excerpt] This book, by three nationally respected researchers in the Brookings Institution's Center on Economic...

[Excerpt] This is a book about "labor status"—what it is, how it works, and how...

Many countries have legislation which make it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers....

Labor markets are important, because most people, especially the poor, derive all or the great...

Income mobility means different things to different people. This article explains the six different mobility...

[Excerpt] Between 1980 and 1992, the enormous changes in economic development in Taiwan had significant...

[Excerpt] 'Income-mobility' analysis involves following the same people for two or more points in time...

[Excerpt] In its determined pursuit of economic development throughout the latter part of the twentieth...

[Excerpt] Throughout the world, there are fundamentally two, and only two, ways that people can...

[Excerpt] This chapter proposes tests of various notions of equality of opportunity and applies them...

[Excerpt] As the title of my paper indicates, the purpose of today's presentation is to...

[Excerpt] The main point of this chapter is to show that the different indices used...

[Excerpt] In the summer of 1999, I first visited South Africa at the request of...

[Excerpt] It is a very positive development that the world community has now reached agreement...

[Excerpt] Consistent with the mainstream view of economic growth as a factor promoting long-term economic...

[Excerpt] How private firms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can...

[Excerpt] This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the...

[Excerpt] Beginning in November 1997, the Republic of Korea underwent a devastating economic crisis. Declining...

[Excerpt] We know well that the East Asian economies have achieved higher economic growth rates...

[Excerpt] Our main purpose in this survey is, therefore, to provide a somewhat unified setting...

[Excerpt] In the literature, much attention has been paid to a number of aspects of...

[Excerpt] In this chapter, I set forth a framework for analysing how labour markets function...

[Excerpt] This chapter is concerned with measuring how the extent of poverty changes in a...

[Excerpt] This paper has three general aims: to demonstrate that standards of living have continued...

[Excerpt] Higher real earnings at the fullest possible level of employment are the goals of...

[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to assess the compatibility between theoretical models of...

[Excerpt] Most of the policies intended to affect urban employment are not specifically employment policies...

[Excerpt] The major policy issue examined in this paper is that of a country's choice...

[Excerpt] What are the links between macroeconomic growth and microeconomic development objectives? The initial view...

[Excerpt] Many development agencies seek to channel economic assistance to those less-developed countries (LDCs) and...

[Excerpt] This paper is a survey of the available literature on education and income distribution...

[Excerpt] Income distribution is only one indicator of economic well-being useful in gauging improvements in...

More than three billion people are poor by international standards, and essentially all are to...

[Excerpt] Kalavati’s family derives all of its money from labor earnings. Her husband long ago...

[Excerpt] Some developing countries have experienced rapid economic growth, some slow economic growth, some no...

[Excerpt] How many times have you attended a talk or read a paper on economic...

This paper is about analyzing labor markets in developing countries, searching for both improved understanding...

[Excerpt] According to the latest figures, today an estimated 3.1 billion people still live in...

[Excerpt] The literature on income and earnings mobility falls into three categories:

1. Macro mobility...