“Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows…
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Framing Race and Poverty. William Julius Wilson, November 1, 2009, Opinion. "One thing I know is that it’s extremely important to discuss…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment. Bruce Western, October 1, 2009, Paper. “Decades of racial progress have led…