Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …

paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that promote self-employment, in Argentina. We …