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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions

Anderson, Kym; Cockburn, John; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … for a sample of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty …

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A Pure Theory of Job Security and Labour Income Risk

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Models of labour market equilibrium where forward-looking decisions maximize both profits and labour income on a risk-neutral basis, offer valuable insights into the effects of employment protection legislation. Since risk-neutral behaviour in the labour market presumes perfect insurance,...

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The Evaluation of Citation Distributions

Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in...

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The Evaluation of Citation Distributions from an Economic Perspective

Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the distribution of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by reviewing the connection between basic...

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One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world’s population. By modelling growth and inequality as components in a joint stochastic process, the Paper calibrates the impact each has no different welfare indicators and on the...

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Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity

Kanbur, Ravi; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what matters for normative evaluation. In response to...

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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000

Almas, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the...

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Community and Class Antagonism

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...

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Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality?

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper first documents the evolution of the cross-sectional income and consumption distribution in the US in the past 25 years. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey we find that a rising income inequality has not been accompanied by a corresponding rise in consumption inequality....

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