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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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Search in the Labour Market, Incomplete Contracts and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper shows that search in the labour market has important effects on accumulation decisions. In a labour market characterized by search, employment contracts are naturally incomplete and this creates a wedge between the rates of return and marginal products of both human and physical...

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Participation in Paid Work: Multiple Regression Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey

Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...

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