Purpose – This paper aims to explore an extensive set of determinants of earnings and to offer recent empirical evidence of their effects on gender and racial earnings gaps. Design/methodology/approach – Most previous studies looked at gender and racial comparisons independently of each...

Violence has been identified as a pandemic to which no country is immune and represents a major threat to human security and rights. The authors look at the effects of arms availability on public health as well as on individual security, human rights and economic growth. Development (1999) 42,...