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are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry … into higher levels of democracy; but if we control for the previously achieved level of democracy, the income effect …
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Empirical studies of intertemporal dynamics of individual income, distribution of personal income, and growth and … distribution of national income are all based on statistics that rely on some concept of income. The dominant one today appears to … be the so-called Haig-Simons-Hicks (HSH) concept of income. I examine the foundations of this concept in Hicks's Value …
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The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between … driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The relationship between speed and income is found again in the empirical … speed on income, distance travelled and a number of controls. The results are clearly significant and indicate an average …
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In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...
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„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s … income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …
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increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility … function. One possible answer is that human development involves more than current income (e.g., as argued by the UN). We find … absolute income, the generosity of the welfare state and (weakly) with life expectancy; it is negatively correlated with the …
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tax- and contribution rules built into tax-benefit models to convert net income information into gross amounts. Using … to produce different net-to-gross ratios for different income components. We undertake a case study to illustrate the … income sources of the same individual. …
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El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
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Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theoretical Underpinnings and Challenges Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, The Levy Economics Institute and Leeds University Abstract This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the type of economic analysis and...
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This paper argues that the tradtitional way of gauging a country's fiscal policy stance by looking at government budget deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be considered fiscal policy is conducted via investment by...
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