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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791338
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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791379
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare … entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial e¤ort and hence a country’s contribution to the world technology … “cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083861
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A Theory of Political Transitions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661707
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Environmental Policy and Capital Movements: The Role of Government Commitment
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792126
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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data
Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792397
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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort
Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504211
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Matching, Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
income inequality. The model also predicts that increasing wage inequality is more likely to arise in economies with less …-group and within-group wage inequality should move in the same direction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114138
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Productivity Differences
Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies and are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Differences in the supply of skills create a mismatch between the requirements of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114308