International Journal of Manpower: Volume 31 Issue 2

Vulnerability and discrimination among women, children and ethnic minorities

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Francesco Pastore

This purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on vulnerability and discrimination among women, children and ethnic minorities.

The distribution of gender wage discrimination in Italy and Spain: a comparison using the ECHP

Yolanda Pena‐Boquete, Sergio De Stefanis, Manuel Fernandez‐Grela

In this paper the aim is to focus on the individual distribution of gender wage discrimination in Spain and Italy, relying upon the development of Jenkins' distributional approach…

A comparison and decomposition of reform‐era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority

Margaret Maurer‐Fazio, James W. Hughes, Dandan Zhang

The purpose of the paper is to examine observed differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and to decompose these differences into…

“It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma”: Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe

Niall O'Higgins

This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non‐Roma in South Eastern Europe with the aim of evaluating competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour…

The gender gap in early career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

The paper's aim is to study the determinants of gender differences in early career in Mongolia, one of the 50 poorest countries of the world.

Children in home worker households in Pakistan and Indonesia

Santosh Mehrotra, Mario Biggeri

The aim of the paper is to understand whether children in home‐worker (HW) households in Pakistan and Indonesia are more likely to work than other children, and, if so, how this…

The relation between child work and the employment of mothers in India

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with the aim of contributing to the understanding of child work in India.