Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...

The labour content, its structures and the finality of the social action were always in a permanent relation with the historical type of society and with the manner of producing goods and services. The humanity passing to the global economy, to a new manner of economic growth places in front of...

The human factor created by physical work and/or intellectual property of all existing material, is unequivocally active value of any work, ie human capital translates into different activities, specialized or not, it creates these individuals. History of the term human capital has experienced...

The relationship between history and the translation of children’s literature refers on the one hand to the historical development of scholarly interest in the field and on the other hand to the revolutionary changes in the society’s perception of children and childhood. This paper aims at...

This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. To address these issues, the paper relies on a very rich data set,...