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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …
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In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …
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This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews …
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