Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys are key to consumption-based monetary poverty measurement. In the absence of market price surveys that are linked to Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys, unit values are used as proxies for market prices in estimating nominal consumption...

Burning off the gas coming out of oil wells - gas flaring—is a common practice in oil-producing developing countries. This economically wasteful and environmentally damaging process occurs because infrastructure has been built with a focus on oil production rather than gas capture and because...

Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys are key to consumption-based monetary poverty measurement. In the absence of market price surveys that are linked to Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys, unit values are used as proxies for market prices in estimating nominal consumption...

Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...

Chapter 1. Earnings and Employment in Foreign-owned Firms -- Chapter 2. Widening and Deepening Human Capital -- Chapter 3. Foreign vs. German wage differentials in Germany: Does the home country matter -- Chapter 4. Bilingualism in the Labour Market -- Chapter 5. The Contrasting Importance of...