This paper analyzes the role of gender wage discrimination in household poverty rates in several European Union (EU) countries using the European Community Household Panel. In order to quantify the impact of discrimination on poverty, it proposes the construction of a counterfactual distribution...

This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country.s population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with re

This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...