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The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …

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Voting with your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labour Laws

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child-labour regulation, based on two key mechanisms. First, parental decisions on family size interact with their preferences for child-labour regulation. Second, the supply of child labour affects skilled and unskilled wages. If policies are...

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?

Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...

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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence

Neutel, Marcel; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T. Kearney...

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Does Development Reduce Migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

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Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

developing and transition economies. With an eye toward future policy, we apply this approach to the first large longitudinal …

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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....

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