based on several empirical strategies suggest that workers"pay"for their entitlement to severance pay through lower wages …

issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two …, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and …

This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade … infrastructure on trade between African countries. They also consider how regional trade agreements relate to intra-African trade … flows. Using trade data from 2003 to 2004, they find that improvement in ports and services infrastructure promise …

This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature …. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a … rich set of predictions concerning both the impact of finance on inequality and about the relevant mechanisms. Although …

the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexico and Central America, where inequality rose after 2010 as labor income … inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies have warned about the sustainability … of such a decline, and this paper presents evidence of stagnation in the pace of reduction of income inequality in Latin …

This volume presents a collection of studies on the dynamics of income inequality based on micro data. Using a simple … in accounting for household income and its contribution to inequality. It casts doubt on the grand theories of growth and … income inequality that have dominated discussions in development economics. It paves the way for a full-blown, micro …

‘Golden Decade’, in particular the decline in inequality, will hold in this less supportive environment, and discuss …

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 …

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …-monotonic: inequality ?rst increases with the stock of democracy before falling. The paper also presents evidence that education may be a …