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This paper investigates several factors that may be important for improving Mâori outcomes, and the extent to which their importance varies by iwi. Specifically, it examines the extent to which controlling for differences in characteristics of the European population and the populations of...
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We study the evolution of the distribution of assets in a discrete time, de-terministic growth model with log-utility, a minimum consumption require-ment, Cobb-Douglas technology, and agents differing in initial assets. We prove that the coefficient of variation in assets across agents decreases...
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also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …
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presents another attempt to discern the effects of globalization by using the new data derived directly from household surveys …The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While …
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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 … in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural …
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inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
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paper to calculate world distribution for individuals based entirely on household survey data from 91 countries, and …
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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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I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...
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I estimate a life cycle model of consumption choice with unemployment risk. Employed individuals face the risk of losing their job. Unemployed agents receive job random offers of different quality, which they can accept or reject. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s...
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