Documents Fields, Gary S. 3 results

"When economic growth (or economic decline) takes place, who benefits and who is hurt how much? The more traditional way of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among countries or individuals. A newer way is to utilize data on a panel of countries or a panel of people and assess the pattern of panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second, under what conditions, for various measures of rising/falling inequality and various measures of divergent/convergent income changes, each of the four possible combinations can arise."

"How can the promotion of decent work contribute to human development and to economic growth? The author explores this central question by comparing the performance of 38 countries in respect of the UNDP's Human Development Index, of the index of decent work deficit developed by Bescond, Châtaignier and Mehran in this special issue, and of GDP per capita, presenting tentative rankings. These show, inter alia, that – surprisingly – countries without high incomes can nevertheless achieve lower levels of decent work deficit and, conversely,countries with high incomes do not automatically achieve lower levels thereof."

"Welcoming the shift to outcomes which he perceives in the ILO's focus on decent work, the author explores the major issues thus raised. He discusses how to make the notion of decent work more precise in operational terms, and how to develop an integrated approach to economic and social policy in the decent work context, before formulating an empirical approach to assessing the effects of economic growth on decent work. Finally, he outlines a structure for the ILO's planned country reviews of progress towards decent work."