Search Results - subject:"Income Differences"

Ventura, Gustavo; Klein, Paul - Econometric Society - 2004

Migration restrictions are pervasive and severe. Their worldwide enactment starting in the 1920's constituted a fundamental policy shift for a number of countries and for the world as whole. Yet, very little is currently known about the quantitative consequences of these barriers to labor...

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Monopoly rights can reduce income big time

Herrendorf, Berthold; Teixeira, Arilton - EconWPA - 2004

We ask which part of the observed cross-country differences in the level of per capita income can be accounted for by monopoly rights in the labour market. We answer this question in a calibrated growth model with two final goods sectors. The novel feature being that monopoly rights in the...

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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population … how they report their incomes. Using two cross-sections, one for each country, we find large income differences between … extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other hand it is a problem to exclude the self-employed when studying income …

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Globalization, Divergence and Stagnation

Gancia, Gino - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the …

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North-South Trade and Directed Technical Change

Gancia, Gino; Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income … differences. At the same time, integration with countries where IPRs are weakly protected can slow down the world growth rate. An …

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Frustrated Achievers: Winners, Losers and Subjective Well-Being in New Market Economies

Graham, C.; Pettinato, S. - In: Journal of Development Studies 38 (2002) 4, pp. 100-140

assessments of the respondents with the greatest income gains - support the importance of relative rather than absolute income … differences. Among other factors, we attribute our results to shifts in reference norms and to macroeconomic volatility. Relative …

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The World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron; Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and technological spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns – countries that accumulate capital faster than...

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Happiness, Markets, and Democracy: Latin America in Comparative Perspective

Graham, Carol; Pettinato, Stefano - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 2 (2001) 3, pp. 237-268

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Firm Location when Countries Differ in Infrastructures or Incomes

M. Martín-Arroyuelos, Ana; M. Usategu, José - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 294-313

This paper analyzes, in a linear market with two adjacent countries, how firm location and optimal plant size depend on differences in the quality of infrastructures and income levels between countries. The study considers also how a free trade agreement may change, in this context where...

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The World Technology Frontier

Caselli, Francesco; Coleman II, Wilbur John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We define a country's technology as a triple of efficiencies: one for unskilled labour, one for skilled labour, and one for capital. We find a negative cross-country correlation between the efficiency of unskilled labour and the efficiencies of skilled labour and capital. We interpret this...

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