Operationalizing the capability approach (CA) is difficult due to the conceptual challenges it poses: its multidimensionality and the role it assigns to freedom of choice for human wellbeing. Therefore the operationalizability of the CA has been questioned. Despite this, a lot of empirical...

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...

"In this book we focus our attention on the role that culture, that collection of values, beliefs, attitudes and preferences responsible for creating national identities, has played and continues to play on individuals' decisions when they are in or about to enter the labor market. At a time...