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Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...
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Organization (WIPO). Questions of interest include the distribution of trademarks between countries of different income levels, the … share of trademark registrations accounted for by foreign residents and its variation across different income groups, the …
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through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by … the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on the exact amount of gain by the … income redistribute more in favor of the poor - even when the analysis controls for the older people's share in total …
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Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …
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Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income … differences between workers and capital-owners in individual countries. Real income of workers in most countries was similar and …, the situation has changed fundamentally: more than 80 percent of global income differences is due to large gaps in mean …
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This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is...
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This paper reviews trends and patterns in developing countries'trade from 1980 to 2010. During the 30-year span, world trade expanded rapidly, especially in developing countries in the last decade. A similar picture emerges in trade in services. These overall trends, however, mask different...
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(within-country) inequalities, which are already high, are kept in check. Mean-income convergence would also reduce the huge …
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This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …
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development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born into smaller cohorts are less likely to work, but school … attendance remains unchanged. In middle-income countries, young adults in smaller cohorts are less likely to be unemployed and … middle-income countries, but there is scant evidence that these improvements persist into adulthood. …
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