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Inequality, Growth, and Overtaking
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005
This research develops a theory about the role of within-country income inequality leading to overtaking in economic performance among countries. The theory captures two opposing effects of inequality on factor accumulation and suggests that the qualitative change in their combined effect is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556070
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Dynamics of Income Distribution
Li, Hongyi; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-fu - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper, we have obtained closed-form solutions in Cass-Koopmans growth models with heterogeneous agents. The relationship between the form of production function and the dynamics of income distribution is made explicit. We then use this relationship to determine what production structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125654
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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China
Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062638
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Inequality-Driven Growth: Unveiling Aggregation Effects in Growth Equations
Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005
. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555988
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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina
Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408025
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556182
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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556842
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125734
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Changing Pattern of Poverty 1997-2004
Angeriz, Alvaro; Chakravarty, Shanti - EconWPA - 2005
It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty in Britain is partly due to the success of government policy in generating economic growth. Apart from missing the argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134612