Conference on Poverty and Inequality

The Network on Poverty and Inequality (NIP) Chapter Mexico has opened a call for papers for a conference to be held in Mexico City. The information here.

Nutritional security

The new Israeli Council for Nutritional Security....

UN: February 20 World Day of Social Justice

On 20 February the UN celebrates the World Day of Social Justice in order to invite Member States to devote this special day to promote, at national level, specific activities in accordance with the objectives and goals of the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly. Here the official link to the page of the UN: http://www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/

Increasing inequality

This OECD Report analyzes the increased income inequality in several OECD countries although they have had a sustained economic and employment growth.

Differences between men and women - Part IV

Continuing with the analysis of the differences between men and women in Latin America, the following chart shows the relative labor force participation rate of men and women. The figures for all regions are very similar. Between 20 and 54 years old the percentage of men and women working is very similar. It is from 55 years old where the gap began noticeable and men show higher rates.

Relative labor force participation (men/women), by age group

Differences between men and women - Part III

Continuing with the same issue, the following figure shows the difference in wages of men and women. The results do not show anything new, in all countries the wages of men are higher than women, although this gap is growing up over the years.

Relative wage of men with respect to women

Differences between men and women - Part II

Continuing with the inequality between men and women, today we present a figure showing the difference in hours worked between the two groups. As labor force participation, countries behave very similar. There are countries where the difference is very big, as in Costa Rica and Uruguay. And countries where the difference is minimal, such as El Salvador.

Difference in hours worked between men and women (20 to 74 years old)

Differences between men and women - Part I

On the occasion of International Women's Day, in the coming days we will be uploading figures showing differences between men and women in countries of the Americas, in matters of labor force participation, wages, hours worked, among others.

The chart below shows the difference in participation rates between men and women. Countries behave very similar, in all countries and group ages men work more than women.

Difference in participation rates between men and women (20-74 years old)

International Women´s Day

Today, 8 March, is being celebrated the International Women´s Day. This year the official theme is "Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women". For more information access this United Nations link.

World Day of Social Justice – February 20

On a press release published last Tuesday by the UN, the importance of social justice to achieve stability and prosperity was established. Furthermore, UN Secretary-General mentioned the importance, now more than ever, of creating more inclusive and equitable societies. The UN system-wide response includes an initiative to establish a social protection floor to ensure access to basic social services, provide the means to generate decent incomes, and strengthen safeguards for the poor. The objective of a social protection floor is to prevent people from living below a certain income level and to facilitate access to essential public services. Various studies have concluded a basic social floor is globally affordable. To read more about social floor and the aforementioned studies, click here.

Interesting paper on inequality

The Economist published an interesting article on inequality within and between countries, which has been discussed in Bekcer and Posner Blog.