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Social mobility among disadvantaged groups in IndiaIn recent decades, India has experienced rapid economic growth alongside radical affirmative action programs enacted since independence. This column explores what we know about the impact on social mobility...
Social mobility India EqualityBlog
New WIID Companion to improve the study of inequality
There is a growing need to understand income inequality trends and how they interplay with other social, economic, and political outcomes, both at the country level and worldwide...
Inequality Equality Economic inequalityBook Chapter
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesWorking Paper
The relationship between transport accessibility and employment durationThe purpose of this research is to investigate whether transport accessibility influences the employment duration of individuals in South Africa...
Employment Employment duration EqualityJournal Article
Basic Old‐Age Protection in Latin America: Noncontributory Pensions, Coverage Expansion Strategies, and Aging Patterns across CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Equality Old age Social pensionsBlog
Moving out of identity silos and into intersectionality: The example of gender identity
Women are undoubtedly doing better today than they were even 40-50 years ago. The gender gap has shrunk in many areas, including educational attainment, health, and employment and wages...
Gender Caste EqualityProject
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
Theme: Transforming societies
Inequality Equality Income inequalityWorking Paper
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseThis study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data...
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesPolicy Brief
Toward gender equity and women’s empowermentThere are three main channels of women’s empowerment: legal or policy reforms, outside economic opportunities, and collective action...
Gender Equality DiscriminationBook Chapter
IntroductionFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Gender Equality Female empowermentBook
Towards Gender Equity in DevelopmentThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Gender Equality DiscriminationWorking Paper
The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America: Key design features of non-contributory pensionsOver the past two decades, many Latin American countries have expanded the economic protection of older adults by developing non-contributory pensions or making eligibility rules more flexible...
Equality Old age Social pensions