In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually...

Using harmonized data for the years 1995-2001 from the European Community Household Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven countries. In estimations that control for the effects of individual characteristics at different points of the...