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For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …
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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 and the level of alternative income are controlled. Earning power is … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often …
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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How do aggregate wealth-to-income ratios evolve in the long run and why? We address this question using 1970 … able to extend our analysis as far back as 1700. We find in every country a gradual rise of wealth-income ratios in recent … growth, in line with the β=s/g Harrod-Domar-Solow formula. That is, for a given net saving rate s= 10%, the long run wealth-income …
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Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …
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inheritance. Wealth-income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the 18th-19th centuries up untilWorldWar …-of-tax rate of return on wealth and g is the economy's growth rate. This suggests that current trends toward rising wealth-income …
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Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest … rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly … relatively high income elasticity, and detect parameter instability. We estimate a short-run M2 demand function that passes a …
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investigation into the relationship between a good's factor intensity in production and its income elasticity of demand in … and income elasticity of demand for several types of preferences, with and without accounting for trade costs and … show an important role for per-capita income in understanding trade/GDP ratios, the choice of trading partners, and the …
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Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …
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civil war is spurious, and is accounted for by historical phenomena that jointly determine income evolution and conflict. In … particular, the statistical association between poverty, as proxied by income per capita, and civil wars disappears once we …
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