This book shows how an adverse family background has permanent negative effects on employment, wages and labour mobility, particularly in the presence of structural economic changes. It contributes to understand why inequality is highly persistent in Latin America, where poverty and vulnerability are likely to be passed on to the next generation.

Carlos Villalobos Barría is an economist at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research at the University of Göttingen. He has worked at the World Bank, at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and has lectured at the Universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg and Talca (Chile). His research focuses on poverty, inequality, labour markets and migration.

Contents: The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy: Honduras – Sectorial Shifts and Inequality: How to Relate Macroeconomic Events to Inequality Changes – Internal Migration and its Impact on Reducing Inter-Communal Disparities in Chile – Determinants of Student Achievements in Paraguay.