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The agri-food sector in Romania: An analysis of the resources-utilization correlation in the post-accession period

Bucur, Elena Carmen; Bucur, Sorinel Ionel - 2015

As important part of national economy, the agri-food sector had oscillating evolutions in the post-accession period, mainly generated by the need to get in line with the EU requirements. The analysis of the resources-utilizations ratio, from the point of view of production account, reveals...

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Uncertainty is Change

Carstensen, Kai; Bachmann, Rüdiger; Schneider, Martin; … - 2018

This paper provides survey evidence on firms’ subjective uncertainty about future sales growth from a new representative panel data set of the German manufacturing sector. The main finding is that uncertainty reflects change: firms report more subjective uncertainty after either high or low...

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Measurement of Innovation: Where Do We Stand?

Artige, Lionel - 2016

Innovation is widely considered as the main determinant of long-term economic growth. Despite this consensus, it is arduous to measure its economic effect at the firm and aggregate level. The objective of the present paper is to propose a critical examination of innovation indicators and...

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Measuring Mobile Broadband Challenges and Implications for Policymaking

Frias, Zoraida; Lehr, William; Stocker, Volker; Mendo, Luis - 2023

methods used to collect measurement data are changing, the ecosystem of stakeholders with strategic interests in mobile … measurement is growing and becoming more complex, posing challenges and opportunities for policymakers. Against the background of … this growing complexity, this paper aims to discuss some basic features of a capable and reliable measurement ecosystem for …

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Regional Development and Income Distribution The Case of Greece

Dimaki, Katerina; Angelis, Vasilis; Gaki, Eleni - 2010

The distribution of income has always been a main concern of economic theory and policy. Classical economists were concerned with the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital. Modern economists, on the other hand, are concerned with the distribution...

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Trends in income inequality in the European Union: implications for health inequalities

Pascual, Marta; Cantarero, David; Sarabia, Jose Maria - 2004

The comparative analysis of income inequality across countries has acquired increasing importance in recent years. This paper is divided in two parts. The first one is focused on the analysis of income inequality in the European Union. To carry out this task, we use different models based on...

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20 years of German unification: evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Peters, Heiko; Brück, Tilman - 2010

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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A household-based Human Development Index

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2010

The most limiting weakness of the human development index (HDI) is that it looks only at average achievements and does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country or population subgroups. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used...

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

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Market size, productivity, entrepreneurship and income inequality in a model a'la Melitz

Pokrovsky, Dmitry; Kokovin, Sergej G.; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - 2013

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