Abstract: Trotz hoher wirtschaftlicher Wachstumsraten sind viele ländliche Haushalte in Schwellenländern weiterhin von Armut und Vulnerabilität betroffen. Diese Arbeit zeigt, welchen Beitrag außerlandwirtschaftliche Beschäftigung zur Vulnerabilitätsreduktion leisten kann und hebt in...

The analysis of inequality of opportunity has become an important issue in recent economic literature, especially in Latin America. This study proposes a link to the capability approach and analyzes the performance of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades in terms of...

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...