The current economic recession has had unequal consequences on employment depending on the country considered. It is generally accepted that the negative impact of unemployment on individual welfare can be very different depending on its duration. However, conventional statistics on unemployment...

Usando datos del PHOGUE, los autores analizan los efectos de la brecha salarial por razón de género en la distribución de la renta de los hogares en España. El procedimiento empírico consta de tres fases. En primer lugar, se estima la brecha salarial individual para cada mujer trabajadora....

Este trabajo analiza la dinámica de la pobreza en España identificando distintos perfiles en función de su duración temporal. Los resultados indican que la pobreza en España exhibe dos características importantes: un reducido número de individuos persistentemente pobres y un elevado nivel...

Recent results on poverty in Europe show that households with children have a higher incidence of poverty than households without children. This incidence is not only higher but increasing. The literature on poverty has noted that the events that are most effective in pushing households out of...

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, this paper analyzes the extent of geographical disparities in occupational segregation by race and ethnicity across the United States. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels...

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...

The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates at least twice as high as those of non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates between the two minorities are, however, the result of different combinations...