... sociodemographic distinctions. The puzzle is why women remain under-represented in Iran’s labor force despite high educational attainment, later marriage, smaller family size, and the country’s economic difficulties. Drawing on household surveys by the Statistical Center of Iran, we put the spotlight on the waged...

... multipliers than lower-income countries. The largest multipliers tend to be in the global South. We then provide a model explaining the differences in multipliers in terms of the domesticity of purchases, the wage intensity of production, the geographical size of the country, and the changing roles of GDP per...

...Anthony Roberts; Luoman Bao The growth of wage inequality during a period of rapid economic development and reform in China raises questions about the nature of economic stratification in contemporary Chinese society. The most prominent explanation is that the transition to a market economy...

... of return migrants to nonmigrants and internal migrants in Mexico. We show that the less voluntary nature of return migration in the early twenty-first century has resulted in higher employment propensities, lower entrepreneurial activities, and deteriorated wages among return migrants. However...