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Poverty is related in part to jobs and earnings. Not all poverty, however, can be explained this way, as the chapter on poverty has noted. But the appeal of putting unemployed people to work, of increasing the incomes of some poor people, and of transmitting the sense of dignity and human worth associated with regular employment motivates a careful inspection of employment and its relation to poverty.
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These matters are discussed in general in the works of Chenery and Kuznets. See, for example, Hollis Chenery and Moises Syrquin, Patterns of Development, 1950–1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), pp. 48–53; Simon Kuznets, Six Lectures on Economic Growth (New York: Free Press, 1959), pp. 43–67; and Kuznets, Economic Growth of Nations (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971) pp. 199–302.
For a discussion of methods, and review of some methodological pitfalls, see D. G. Champernowne, ‘A Comparison of Measures of Inequality of Income Distribution’, Economic Journal (December 1974)
F. A. Cowell, Measuring Inequality (New York: John Wiley, 1977). Shail Jain presents results for eighty-one countries in his Size Distribution of Income (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1975).
Arthur F. Raper, Rural Development in Action (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970). Charles Hampden-Turner, From Poverty to Dignity (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1975).
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Herrick, B., Hudson, B. (1981). Employment. In: Urban Poverty and Economic Development: A Case Study of Costa Rica. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05315-5_4
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