context, a question rises: is there any relationship between household’s calorie availability (demand) and labour productivity … consumption correspond higher levels of productivity. Furthermore, we show that the education level of the household chief has … finally in low wages. Between 1998 and 2002, wages per hour have decreased more than 30% in Lima Metropolitana only. In this …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

. Reforms should strengthen income protection by ensuring that cash benefits provide adequate and tailored support to those in … strengthened further, starting at the early school years, as not all children benefit from early childhood education and care … well-designed labour market activation policies is also important for tackling poverty effectively. …

secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to … unobservable factors that themselves might be correlated across generations. Our main findings suggest that income has no positive …

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …