impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive … tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation structural change is accompanying rising wage inequality. The wage … intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …

evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …

an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the …

Over the last fifty years Asia has transformed beyond recognition. 'Resurgent Asia' provides an analytical narrative of … Asia's incredible development situated in the wider context of historical, political, and social factors. …