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Wage and Income Inequality in Slovenia, 1993-2002
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyses the dynamics of wage and income inequality in Slovenia from 1993 to 2002, using two different data sources. The first is obtained by extracting relevant information on wage earners from the personal income tax (PIT) database and the second is obtained using published data on...
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ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, POVERTY AND INCOME INEQUALITY
Verardi, Vincenzo - EconWPA - 2005
test for the effects of electoral systems on both poverty and income Inequality. We find that when de degree of … proportionality of an electoral system increases, inequality and poverty decrease. We also find than in presidential regimes, the … levels of poverty and inequality are higher than in parliamentary regimes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560968
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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural …Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive …
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True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993: First calculation based on household surveys alo
milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper derives world income or expenditure distribution of individuals for two years 1988 and 1993. It is the first paper to calculate world distribution for individuals based entirely on household survey data from 91 countries, and adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity between...
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The Ricardian Vice: Why Sala-i-Martin’s calculations of world income inequality are wrong
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems with which the author had to grapple (too few data to derive countries’ income distributions, and sparseness of such data in time) are not solved in a satisfactory fashion....
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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003
Using three alternative models that incorporate the behavior of both credit constrained and unconstrained firms in a theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust conclusions emerge from the estimation of the...
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Latvia: Working Too Hard?
Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005
This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076524
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Privatizing Profits of Bulgaria's State Enterprises, TRANSITION newsletter about transition economies, The World Bank, Vol. 6, No.3, March 1995.
Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005
enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition. …
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Do asymmetric terms of trade shocks affect private savings in a transition economy?
Chowdhury, Abdur R. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines whether terms of trade shocks have an asymmetric effect on private savings in transition economies …
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The Tax Base in Transition: The Case of Bulgaria, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series No. 1267 (March 1994), The World Bank.
Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005
the transition from the socialist system. The paper explores issues in the design of tax bases and tax structures in the … transition and argues that transition economies would need to adopt a lower and simpler tax structure than the ones prevailing in …
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