New development solves housing problems for some workers by creating new jobs that pay sustaining wages. At the same … over 475,000 low-income households without housing they could afford. In the absence of additional resources to build … for affordable housing is the deficit between the mean rent for an apartment in the City and the amount of earned income …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution. …In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document …

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute … income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

-year lifetime limit on aid for adults. Months in which the mother receives any part of her income from TANF count toward her … (earning half or more of their total income), indicating that they had viable prospects for economic self-sufficiency. Another …. About 44 percent of the non-recipients had at least some college-level education, while only half as many mothers receiving …

-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK …

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income … changes to their lives, and overall they are less supportive of these measures. These patterns are less clear across income … groups: while some countries have managed to shield lower income individuals from negative consequences, others have not. We …

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters … evidence of any income-based "trajectory inequality" in either cohort, after conditioning on abilities. Among all graduation … Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …