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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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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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a secondary source of household income. Third, as per capita income increases, the structure of employment shifts … targeting the minority of self-employed with higher growth potential is important, particularly in low-income contexts. The …
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By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … with a low level of income inequality. Moreover, while income inequality shows a decline between 2000 and 2009, the World … groups. This paper utilizes a range of recently developed statistical techniques to assess the true value of income …
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