The paper examines the structure of inequality in Greece using the micro-data of a Household Budget Survey carried out in 1987/88.

Household budget survey data and public budget consolideted data for 1987/88 are combined to yoeld a non-estimation based measure of benefit of government education outlays in Greece. As expected for a country where education services are provided free of charge and the role of private education...

A common problem in empirical studies dealing with the identification of the poor is that their results tend to be sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis...

The paper presents a theoretical background for the analysis of the relationship between fertility and a number of socio-economic factors associated with the process of economic development and analyses empirically this relationship within a cross-country framework.